Spending at least 120 minutes a week in nature is associated with good health and wellbeing

What the study found

Participants reporting at least roughly two hours of nature contact per week were more likely to report good health and wellbeing, with benefits associated with accumulated exposure.

Limitations

Observational and self-reported exposure; threshold should not be treated as causal prescription.

Neurodesign interpretation

The design implication is temporal access. A courtyard matters more if people can actually use it often enough for exposure to accumulate.

Possible design implications

Use to motivate repeated access to nature rather than one-off decorative exposure.

Why it stays in the corpus

Retain as a dose-response population signal.

Study design

Cross-sectional population study

Population

Large adult population sample

Setting

Everyday nature exposure

Field

Nature exposure, public health

Mechanism

Dose-response association, wellbeing

Spatial variable

Time in nature

Keywords

nature dose, wellbeing, public health, green space