Research Trends on the Effects of Forest Therapy in Korea and Ways to Improve the Level of Medical Evidence: A Scoping Review

• 영문명: Research Trends on the Effects of Forest Therapy in Korea and Ways to Improve the Level of Medical Evidence: A Scoping Review
• 발행기관: 인간식물환경학회
• 저자명: 이혜림 정다워 권용진 박범진
• 간행물 정보: 『인간식물환경학회지(JPPE)』제26권 제5호, 535~550쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 자연과학 > 자연과학일반
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2023.10.31

영문 초록

Background and objective: Studies on the effects of forest therapy are clinical research that reveals the effects suitable forthe purpose of therapy by applying a forest therapy program, which is a complex intervention, to humans in various forestenvironments. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to find out the characteristics of existing studies on the effects offorest therapy and to suggest ways to improve the level of evidence for future research results. In this study, a scopingreview was conducted to find out how studies on the effects of forest therapy were conducted based on the medical clinicalresearch method in domestic studies on the effects of forest therapy. Methods: The scoping review utilized a procedure proposed by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). A total of 564 studies weresearched and 57 were used in the final analysis. Results: As a result of the analysis, only 1 study (1.8%) had a manual to reproduce the forest therapy program, and 56studies (98.2%) reported only brief information on the program. As for the report on forest therapy environments, therewere articles that mentioned some therapy environments, but none predicted the effects or reported about reproducibility. Among the reports on forest therapy environments, 21.1% reported about both forest and thermal environments, and26.3% reported only about the forest environment. Conclusion: From the perspective of clinical research, the level of evidence for studies on the effects of forest therapy sofar has been found to be very low, and methods for applying clinical research methods to improve this have been discussed. Clinical research is a prerequisite for verifying medical effects in order to raise the level of forest therapy from wellness totreatment support activities, and it must be actively utilized in the future.

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키워드

clinical research on forest therapy medical effects of forest therapy reproducibility of forest therapy improving the quality of literature