Branching Out : the impact of a mental health ecotherapy programme
Wilson, Neil and Jones, Russell and Fleming, Susan and Lafferty, Kevin and Knifton, Lee and Catherine, Kirsty and McNish, Hugh (2011) Branching Out : the impact of a mental health ecotherapy programme. Ecopsychology, 3 (1). pp. 51-57. (https://doi.org/10.1089/eco.2010.0049)
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Branching Out is a national-award-winning program developed by The Forestry Commission Scotland and The National Health Service. For each client, the program consists of 3 hrs of ecotherapy per week in outdoor woodland settings. Clients work together in small groups of 6–12 for a 12-week period. The program was evaluated using a repeated measures design. The independent variable was “attendance of the program,” of which there were two levels. The dependent variables were scores on the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS), the SF-12v2TM Health Survey, and the Scottish Physical Activity Questionnaire (SPAQ). Repeated measures t-tests were used to examine pre- to postchange in the dependent variables. There were no significant differences between the pre- and post-WEMWBS or SF-12v2TM Health Survey scores, indicating that attendance of Branching Out did not have any significant effect on mental well-being or general health. Attendance of Branching Out significantly improved physical activity levels as evidenced by significantly higher postintervention SPAQ scores from baseline. The implications for practice are discussed.
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Wilson, Neil, Jones, Russell, Fleming, Susan, Lafferty, Kevin, Knifton, Lee ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2227-7305, Catherine, Kirsty and McNish, Hugh;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 36417 Dates: DateEventMarch 2011PublishedSubjects: Medicine > Public aspects of medicine > Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 12 Dec 2011 10:43 Last modified: 11 Nov 2024 10:02 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/36417