Nature's Impact on Mental Health Promotion in Australia: A Report

This report delves into the relationship between nature and mental health promotion, focusing on the Australian context. It begins with an introduction and a literature review that examines existing research on the benefits of nature for mental wellbeing, drawing from studies by Vujcic et al., Jennings et al., Bodman, Barton & Rogerson, and Battams. The report identifies a literature gap concerning the degree of nature's impact on mental health promotion and the lack of specific studies in Australia. The research objective is to understand the impact of nature on promoting mental health in Australia, leading to the formulation of research questions such as, "What support nature provides in mental health promotion in Australia?" and "Describe the percentage of effect nature have on mental health promotion in Australia?" The report concludes with a list of cited references. The report is a student assignment, providing a foundation for further qualitative research in the field of health and nature.

RUNNING HEAD: HEALTH RESEARCH 0
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Literature Review............................................................................................................................2
Literature Gap..................................................................................................................................3
Research objective...........................................................................................................................3
Research question............................................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................4

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Introduction
In this report, "Nature and mental health promotion" topic are selected, the discussion is made on
describing the different opinions of authors about topic and report also discuss the literature gap.
Further, the research objective and questions are identified.
Literature Review
Vujcic et al. conducted the study to understand the concept of nature and mental health
promotion, the data collection was done through adopting a secondary method that is by
reviewing existing articles (Vujcic et al., 2017). From the analysis, it is estimated that nature
plays an important role in promoting and improving the mental health of the people. It is because
this leads in the mental health of the individual will be improved by focusing on wellbeing
activities.
The objective of the research is to provide information about promoting the mental health of the
person (Jennings et al., 2016). From the analysis, it is revealed that mental health strategies lead
in increasing satisfaction among the individual because of less depreciation. Bodman also
revealed that through exposing the nature individual can think more positively and can increase
the coping skills. Further estimation also revealed that getting more into nature person can
concentrate more on the activities, increase problem-solving skills and increase the capacity of
the person to think critically (Bodman, 2017).
Barton & Rogerson revealed that spending time into nature results in increasing the thinking
ability to think more critically, however, it is considered the therapy through which various
patients are treated for improving their mental health and remain stress-free (Barton & Rogerson,
2017). The estimation describes that forest therapy is also considered the treatment therapy and
therapist perform various activities to spread awareness for improving the mental health of the
person. Battams also describes that it is promoted because of reducing anxiety and can support in
increasing the psychological, emotional and physical status of individuals because the person
received several benefits by nature immersion (Battams, 2016).

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Literature Gap
The above studies revealed that the majority of the researchers focuses on revealing the
information about the concept of nature and mental health promotion, the study also provides
data regarding benefits of nature in improving and promoting the mental health of an individual.
However, studies do not provide information about the degree of impact nature has on mental
health promotion. The studies also not focused on describing the concept in Australia.
Research objective
The proposed report can focus on understanding "the impact of nature in promoting the mental
health of an individual in Australia. This leads in providing complete data regarding their
relationship and their benefits to continue this practice in the promotion.
Research question
To achieve the objective of conducting the research, questions are developed so that validity will
be maintained in receiving the answers.
 "What support nature provides in mental health promotion in Australia?"
 “Describe the percentage of effect nature have on mental health promotion in Australia?”

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References
Barton, J. & Rogerson, M., 2017. The importance of greenspace for mental health. BJPsych
international , 14(4), pp.79-81.
Battams, S., 2016. ublic Mental Health Policy, Mental Health Promotion, and Interventions
Which Focus on the Social Determinants of Mental Health. Frontiers in public health, 4, p.285.
Bodman, G.M., 2017. Nature as Health Promotion “The Rug of Life” as a Method. In
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Proceedings, 1(9), p.877.
Jennings, V., Yun, J. & Larson, L., 2016. Finding common ground: environmental ethics, social
justice, and a sustainable path for nature-based health promotion. In Healthcare, 4(3), p.61.
Vujcic, M. et al., 2017. Nature based solution for improving mental health and well-being.
Environmental research, 158, pp.385-92.