Is Brief Exposure to Green Space in School the Best Option to Improve Attention in Children?
dc.contributor.author | Anabitarte Riol, Asier | |
dc.contributor.author | García-Baquero Moneo, Gonzalo | |
dc.contributor.author | Andiarena Villaverde, Ainara | |
dc.contributor.author | Lertxundi Iribar, Nerea | |
dc.contributor.author | Urbieta Macazaga, Nerea | |
dc.contributor.author | Babarro Vélez, Izaro | |
dc.contributor.author | Ibarluzea Maurolagoitia, Jesús María | |
dc.contributor.author | Lertxundi Manterola, Aitana | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-05T08:42:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-08-05T08:42:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-07-13 | |
dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(14) : (2021) // Article ID 7484 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 1660-4601 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/52707 | |
dc.description.abstract | The positive effects of Green Spaces on health are thought to be achieved through the mechanisms of mitigation, instoration and restoration. One of the benefits of Green Spaces may be the restoration of attention and so the objective of this research is testing empirically whether exposure to a green environment improves attention in school children. For so doing, we first used a split-unit statistical design in each of four schools, then combined the primary results via meta-analysis. The Attention Network Test (ANT) was used to measure attention before and after exposure and a total of 167 seven-year-old students participated in the experiments. Overall, our experimental results do not support the hypothesis that students’ exposure to activities in green vs. grey spaces affected their performance in ANT. This was so despite the fact that neither age nor gender biases have been detected and despite that our experiments have been proved to be sufficiently statistically powerful. It would be advisable to consider air pollution and noise. We also recommend that participants attend the experiment with mental exhaustion to maximize the ability to detect significant changes. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research was funded by KUTXA FUNDAZIOA, grant number KUTXA18/001. | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | MDPI | es_ES |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ | |
dc.subject | attention network test | es_ES |
dc.subject | natural spaces | es_ES |
dc.subject | mental health | es_ES |
dc.subject | ReML | es_ES |
dc.title | Is Brief Exposure to Green Space in School the Best Option to Improve Attention in Children? | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.date.updated | 2021-07-23T13:28:35Z | |
dc.rights.holder | 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/14/7484/htm | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/ijerph18147484 | |
dc.departamentoes | Medicina preventiva y salud pública | |
dc.departamentoes | Psicología Clínica y de la Salud y Metodología de Investigación | |
dc.departamentoeu | Prebentzio medikuntza eta osasun publikoa | |
dc.departamentoeu | Psikologia Klinikoa eta Osasunaren Psikologia eta Ikerketa Metodologia |
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