The effect of green walking on heart rate variability: A pilot crossover study

Brito, Junia N. de; Pope, Zachary; Mitchell, Nathan; Schneider, Ingrid E.; Larson, Jean M.; Horton, Teresa H.; Pereira, Mark A.

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2020.109408

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“…Moreover, moving on a path with a larger complexity had a larger effect on the alterations of the HRV. Our analysis is more advanced compared with the studies (Parkkari et al, 2000;Hooper et al, 2004;Motooka et al, 2006;Leicht et al, 2011;Corrêa et al, 2013;Saevereid et al, 2014;Brenner et al, 2020;de Brito et al, 2020) that only evaluated HRV in walking without relating it to the characteristics of the walking path. Besides, decreasing the complexity of HRV in walking compared with the rest has been observed in Shi et al (2017), and therefore, the result of our analysis is valid.…”

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“…They employed different techniques for their analysis. The reported studies that analyzed the effects of regular walking during a golf game (Parkkari et al, 2000), graded forward and backward walking (Hooper et al, 2004), dog-walking (Motooka et al, 2006), low-intensity exercise (Brenner et al, 2020), age and sex of subjects (Corrêa et al, 2013), speed and duration of walking (Saevereid et al, 2014), green walking (de Brito et al, 2020), and supervised walking (Leicht et al, 2011) on heart rate variations are worthy of being mentioned.…”

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Complexity-Based Decoding of the Coupling Among Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Walking Path

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Walking is an everyday activity in our daily life. Because walking affects heart rate variability, in this research, for the first time, we analyzed the coupling among the alterations of the complexity of walking paths and heart rate. We benefited from the fractal theory and sample entropy to evaluate the influence of the complexity of paths on the complexity of heart rate variability (HRV) during walking. We calculated the fractal exponent and sample entropy of the R-R time series for nine participants who walked on four paths with various complexities. The findings showed a strong coupling among the alterations of fractal dimension (an indicator of complexity) of HRV and the walking paths. Besides, the result of the analysis of sample entropy also verified the obtained results from the fractal analysis. In further studies, we can analyze the coupling among the alterations of the complexities of other physiological signals and walking paths.

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Complexity-Based Decoding of the Coupling Among Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Walking Path

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“…While the vagus nerve is one of several responses systems contributing to the experience of wellbeing, it has a regulatory role over many including the sympathetic nervous system (Porges, 2011;Deuchars et al, 2018), hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis (Porges, 2011), immune functioning (Tracey, 2002;Pavlov and Tracey, 2012), brain-gut interactions (Bonaz et al, 2018;Fülling et al, 2019) neurogenesis and epigenetic mechanisms (Follesa et al, 2007;Biggio et al, 2009;O'Leary et al, 2018). Research now links vagal function to positive emotions (Geisler et al, 2010;Kok and Fredrickson, 2010;Kok et al, 2013), meaning and purpose in life (Zilioli et al, 2015;Dang et al, 2021), emotion regulation (Geisler et al, 2010;Williams et al, 2015), executive function (Williams et al, 2019;Eggenberger et al, 2020), psychological flexibility (Kashdan and Rottenberg, 2010;Colzato et al, 2018), prosocial behaviours (Kemp et al, 2012;Geisler et al, 2013;Kok et al, 2013), positive health behaviours (Werner et al, 2015;Young and Benton, 2018), biopsychosocial resilience (Dedoncker et al, 2021), time spent in nature (Richardson et al, 2016;De Brito et al, 2020) and future morbidity and mortality (Hillebrand et al, 2013;Jandackova et al, 2016;Fang et al, 2020). Various theoretical models have been proposed within which these findings have been interpreted.…”

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Moving Beyond Disciplinary Silos Towards a Transdisciplinary Model of Wellbeing: An Invited Review

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The construct of wellbeing has been criticised as a neoliberal construction of western individualism that ignores wider systemic issues such as inequality and anthropogenic climate change. Accordingly, there have been increasing calls for a broader conceptualisation of wellbeing. Here we impose an interpretative framework on previously published literature and theory, and present a theoretical framework that brings into focus the multifaceted determinants of wellbeing and their interactions across multiple domains and levels of scale. We define wellbeing as positive psychological experience, promoted by connections to self, community and environment, supported by healthy vagal function, all of which are impacted by socio-contextual factors that lie beyond the control of the individual. By emphasising the factors within and beyond the control of the individual and highlighting how vagal function both affects and are impacted by key domains, the biopsychosocial underpinnings of wellbeing are explicitly linked to a broader context that is consistent with, yet complementary to, multi-levelled ecological systems theory. Reflecting on the reciprocal relationships between multiple domains, levels of scale and related social contextual factors known to impact on wellbeing, our GENIAL framework may provide a foundation for a transdisciplinary science of wellbeing that has the potential to promote the wellbeing of individuals while also playing a key role in tackling major societal challenges.

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“…In addition, physical activity in a natural environment has been reported to benefit mental health compared to indoor physical activity [ 25 ]. Other similar studies have also demonstrated that short-term exposure, like a 15 min walk in green space, could have health benefits [ 26 , 27 ]. To apply these findings, some modern Japanese hospitals have built rooftop gardens that resemble natural greenery so that inpatients can relax and recover.…”

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The Effects of an Artificial Garden on Heart Rate Variability among Healthy Young Japanese Adults

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Spending time in nature might positively influence mental health by inducing a relaxed state. Recently, gardens have been created on hospital rooftops in Japan to help inpatients recover from various physical and mental aliments. However, there is little evidence regarding any positive physiological effects of artificial gardens designed for health. The purpose of this study was to assess the psychological and cardiovascular responses incited by artificial natural environments. Japanese university students (n = 38) participated in a one-group pretest post-test experiment conducted at the Yamaguchi Flower Expo in Japan in October 2018, designed to assess whether exposure to four environments (forest, flowers, ocean, and artificial garden for health) influenced heart rate variability measures. After pretesting to determine baseline measurements, participants completed a circuit through the four natural environments. Following circuit completion, post-testing determined that the low frequency/high frequency ratio was significantly lower in the overall sample and the four areas had similar influences on heart rate variability. Findings suggest that exposure to nature by walking through natural areas and in rooftop artificial gardens might enhance the balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.

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The effect of green walking on heart rate variability: A pilot crossover study

Cited by 36 publications

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Complexity-Based Decoding of the Coupling Among Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Walking Path

Complexity-Based Decoding of the Coupling Among Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Walking Path

Moving Beyond Disciplinary Silos Towards a Transdisciplinary Model of Wellbeing: An Invited Review

The Effects of an Artificial Garden on Heart Rate Variability among Healthy Young Japanese Adults

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