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The Effect of a Forest Healing Program on Cognitive Function, Depression, Anxiety, and Cortisol Levels in Elderly People

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  • 발행기관
    강원대학교 산림과학연구소 바로가기
  • 간행물
    Journal of Forest and Environmental Science KCI 등재 바로가기
  • 통권
    제38권 제4호 (2022.12)바로가기
  • 페이지
    pp.290-301
  • 저자
    Soyeon Kim, Jungkee Choi
  • 언어
    영어(ENG)
  • URL
    https://www.earticle.net/Article/A423151

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Increasing life expectancy leads to a rise in the prevalence of aging-related mental diseases and a concomitant increase in the financial and societal pressures related to their prevention and management. This issue is attracting increasing attention from researchers. Therefore, this study aimed to determine whether a healing program in a forest environment is effective for improving cognitive function, depression, anxiety, and stress in elderly people. A nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design was used. The experimental group consisted of 18 males and females aged 60 to 80 years who participated in a forest healing program for seven days, while the comparison group comprised 10 people with similar demographics. For the process of data analysis, this study performed a cross-analysis to determine the homogeneity of the data and carried out the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, a nonparametric statistical test, to verify the significance of each group. Participation in the forest healing program led to a significant improve-ment in cognitive function (p=0.030). The levels of depression decreased, but this result was not statistically significant. The levels of anxiety decreased significantly (p=0.004). The mean cortisol score, a measurement of stress, decreased, but it was not statistically significant. These findings confirmed the effectiveness of this program for improving certain mental conditions of elderly people, and affirmed that the use of long-term forest healing programs can be expected to alleviate national pressures created by aging societies.

목차

Abstract
Introduction
Materials and Methods
Participants and setting
Experimental design
Program
Measurements
Results
Participant General Characteristics and Homogeneity Test
Changes before and after forest healing
Discussion
Conclusions
Funding
References

키워드

depression stress anxiety cognitive function forest healing program

저자

  • Soyeon Kim [ Department of Forest Healing, College of Human Service, Catholic Kwandong University ]
  • Jungkee Choi [ Division of Forest Science, College of Forest and Environmental Sciences, Kangwon National University ] Corresponding author

참고문헌

자료제공 : 네이버학술정보

간행물 정보

발행기관

  • 발행기관명
    강원대학교 산림과학연구소 [Institute of Forest Science Kangwon National University]
  • 설립연도
    1975
  • 분야
    농수해양>임학
  • 소개
    강원대학교부설산림과학연구소(이하 “연구소”라 한다)는 산림에 관한 제반 학술적 연구를 통하여 산림자원의 효용을 밝히고 임업 및 임산업의 발전에 기여함을 목적으로 한다.

간행물

  • 간행물명
    Journal of Forest and Environmental Science [산림과학연구]
  • 간기
    계간
  • pISSN
    2288-9744
  • eISSN
    2288-9752
  • 수록기간
    1981~2025
  • 등재여부
    KCI 등재
  • 십진분류
    KDC 526 DDC 634

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