Department of Nursing Health, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
Perspective
Forest is a state of wellbeing: A review of the health benefits associated with the practice of ?Shinrin-yoku?
Author(s): Margaret M Hansen*
Shinrin-Yoku (SY), also known as Forest Bathing (FB), is a Japanese practice of immersing oneself in nature by using all five human senses in a mindful and slow manner. SY is reported in the literature as having many positive health benefits and is becoming popular worldwide. This heightened awareness, combined with the scientifically proven health benefits associated with SY, researchers recently conducted a Scoping Review (ScR) to identify programmatic components, monitored health information, nature prescriptions, trends, geographical locations, themes and time on nature. Following the PRISMA-ScR recommendations the researchers followed seven electronic databases for SY empirical studies published from 2017 through 2022. Due to the interdisciplinary aspect of SY research, PubMed, CINAHL, PsychInfo, ScienceDirect, SCOPUS, EMBASE, JSTOR were included in the ScR. The results were scre.. View More»
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