João Paulo Portela Catani, Anouk Smet, Tine Ysenbaert, Marnik Vuylsteke, Guy Bottu, Janick Mathys, Alexander Botzki, Guadalupe Cortes-Garcia, Tod Strugnell, Raul Gomila, John Hamberger, John Catalan, Irina V Ustyugova, Timothy Farrell, Svetlana Stegalkina, Satyajit Ray, Lauren LaRue, Xavier Saelens, Thorsten U Vogel
The antigenic landscape of human influenza N2 neuraminidases from 2009 until 2017
eLife
article outlines protocol trial test effectiveness naturebased intervention called open sky school reduce mental health problems among elementary school children experimental studies show contact nature eg walks parks improve mental health growing number teachers applying outdoor education within regular school curriculum evidence suggests teaching methods could improve students mental health randomized controlled trial never conducted twoarm clustered randomized controlled trial conducted elementary schools across qubec canada following informed consent teachers parents students schools randomly assigned 11 intervention control group total 2500 56th grade students 100 teachers expected participate intervention take place outdoors greenspace 2 h per week 12 weeks include toolkit 30 activities foster wellbeing eg mindfulness academic competencies eg mathematics questionnaires administered teachers students immediately 3 months intervention primary outcome reductions mental health problems children pretopost test social behavior questionnaire self teacher reports secondary outcomes include depression positive negative affect nature connectedness proenvironmental behaviors among children explore immediate benefits teachers wellbeing positive negative affect sustained benefits among students 3 months followup primary outcome explore moderators including childs sex childs disability status greenspace neighbourhoods schools socioeconomic position teachers experience conducting first randomized controlled trial open sky school results could provide empirical evidence effectiveness naturebased interventions reducing mental health problems among elementary school children study registered clinicaltrialsgov nct05662436 december 22 2022