Researchers from Cardiff University in Britain found that people who had a garden close to the house or green spaces around them were more calm and a sense of psychological peace and positive energy compared to those who could not reach a garden or live far from a green space, during the Corona pandemic, according to what was published by the Medi-Cal website Express.
The researchers said that the study is the first to assess the impact of green spaces during the pandemic, and that it highlights the tremendous benefits of physical and mental health and its relationship to green spaces.
Researchers conducted a survey on 5,556 people, assessing their mental health and the extent of their sense of psychological peace, during the peak of the pandemic last year, especially during the first peak in March 2020, when individuals were not allowed to leave their homes except for necessity, such as buying food, and practicing outdoor sports once One daily.
Participants were asked specifically if they felt calm, peaceful and have a lot of energy, or if they were feeling sad and upset, how their health was generally assessed from one to five, their access to a private garden and their distance from the closest green space, such as a garden or forest. Or a playground.
The results indicated that during the first peak of the epidemic, access to green spaces was especially important for families without private gardens, a protective effect to maintain psychological peace during the pandemic period.
The study said that people who live within a 5 to 10 minute walk or more than 10 minutes walk from public green spaces have lower levels of subjective well-being than those who live less than a five minute walk away, while Those who have access to a private garden have higher levels of subjective well-being than those who do not have a private garden.
Official figures show that about one in eight families in Britain did not have access to a private or shared garden during the Coronavirus pandemic, and that only a quarter of Britain's population lived within a five-minute walk of a public park.
The researchers concluded that parks and gardens were essential to people's health and well-being during the epidemic, especially when strict restrictions were imposed to control the epidemic.
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