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Stay home, stay safe, stay green: The role of gardening activities on mental health during the Covid-19 home confinement
Annalisa Theodorou,Angelo Panno,Giuseppe Carrus,Giuseppe Carbone,Chiara Massullo,Claudio Imperatori +5 more
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In this article, the authors investigated the relation between gardening and psychopathological distress during the lockdown of the first wave of Covid-19 in Italy and found that engagement in gardening activities promotes psychological health, through a reduction of covid-related stress.About:
This article is published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.The article was published on 2021-06-01. It has received 65 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Distress & Mental health.read more
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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on human–nature interactions: Pathways, evidence and implications
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest a conceptual framework for understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic might affect the dynamics of human-nature interactions and suggest that there are several feedback loops by which changes in human nature interactions induced by the pandemic can lead to further changes in these interactions.
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Nature's contributions in coping with a pandemic in the 21st century: A narrative review of evidence during COVID-19
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors synthesized the evidence about nature's contributions to health and wellbeing during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and found that during the pandemic, people experienced multiple types of nature, including both outdoors and indoors.
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Gardening can relieve human stress and boost nature connection during the COVID-19 pandemic
Monika Egerer,Brenda B. Lin,Jonathan Kingsley,Pauline Marsh,Lucy O. Diekmann,Alessandro Ossola +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the relationship between people and gardening during the COVID-19 pandemic and what factors influenced the ability of people to garden and found that gardening was overwhelmingly important for nature connection, individual stress release, outdoor physical activity and food provision.
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Horticulture: Critical Issues and Opportunities Derived from an Unexpected Occurrence
R. Bulgari,Alice Petrini,Giacomo Cocetta,Carlo Nicoletto,Andrea Ertani,Paolo Sambo,Antonio Ferrante,Silvana Nicola +7 more
TL;DR: The COVID-19 pandemic is causing many victims worldwide and has generated a serious economic crisis as mentioned in this paper, and substantial changes have occurred in the food and ornamental production chains, such as shortages and/or surpluses, lack of the availability of labor, and a reduction in demand for some food products and flowers.
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The impact of gardening on mental resilience in times of stress: A case study during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors assessed the potential benefits of gardening on the mental well-being of Singapore residents, based on the concept of mental resilience, and hypothesized that gardening activities promote mental resilience.
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