The Impacts of Recreation Programs on the Mental Health of Postsecondary Students in North America: An Integrative Review

Litwiller, Fenton; White, Catherine; Hamilton-Hinch, Barbara; Gilbert, Robert

doi:10.1080/01490400.2018.1483851

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“…Those, however, do not address the social and mental health outcomes of tourism generally. Leisure research argues that non-work discretionary activities reduce stress ( Denovan & Macaskill, 2017 ), and improve quality of life ( Iwasaki, 2017 ; Wensley & Slade, 2012 ), through preventive and therapeutic pathways ( Fenton et al, 2017 ; L. Fenton, White, Gallant, Hutchinson, & Hamilton-Hinch, 2016 ; L. Fenton, White, Hamilton-Hinch, & Gilbert, 2018 ; Y. Iwasaki et al, 2014 ; Y. Iwasaki, Coyle, & Shank, 2010 ).…”

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Mental health rescue effects of women's outdoor tourism: A role in COVID-19 recovery

Buckley

Westaway²

2020

Annals of Tourism Research

121

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Mental and social health outcomes from a portfolio of women's outdoor tourism products, with ~100,000 clients, are analysed using a catalysed netnography of >1000 social media posts. Entirely novel outcomes include: psychological rescue; recognition of a previously missing life component, and flow-on effects to family members. Outcomes reported previously for extreme sports, but not previously for hiking in nature, include psychological transformation. Outcomes also identified previously include: happiness, gratitude, relaxation, clarity and insights, nature appreciation, challenge and capability, and companionship and community effects. Commercial outdoor tourism enterprises can contribute powerfully to the wellbeing of women and families. This will be especially valuable for mental health recovery, following deterioration during COVID-19 coronavirus lockdowns worldwide.

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Section: Theoretical Framework and Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mental health rescue effects of women's outdoor tourism: A role in COVID-19 recovery

Buckley

Westaway²

2020

Annals of Tourism Research

121

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“…Various types of exercise have been shown to improve mental health in adults such as aerobic exercise and resistance training (Rosenbaum et al, 2014). Although the benefits of physical activity on mental health are well recognized, there is a scarcity of exercise interventions across post-secondary campuses to improve university students' mental health (Fenton, White, Hamilton-Hinch, & Gilbert, 2018). A meta-analysis examining the effectiveness of interventions for mental health concerns among university and college students included merely one exercise protocol (Huang et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Compared to the other interventions included in the meta-analysis, exercise as well as art and peer support interventions exhibited the highest effect size (-0.76) for treating depression and anxiety (Huang et al, 2018). Moreover, in a review of 21 campus recreational programs to address mental health issues in post-secondary students, only one was exclusively exercise-based (Fenton et al, 2018). Specifically, Demers (2013) reported 150 minutes of moderate aerobic exercise per week to decrease students' anxiety and depression.…”

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The UWorkItOut UWin Program: Improving University Students’ Psychological Distress through Physical Activity

Muir

Munroe‐Chandler

Loughead

et al. 2020

IJKSS

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Background: The predominance of mental health concerns among post-secondary students has amplified the demand for campus counselling services. Although exercise is positively linked to mental health, campus interventions that integrate supervised exercise and exercise counselling are limited. Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to examine the impact of the UWorkItOut UWin program on students’ psychological distress. Methods: The UWorkItOut UWin program is a 6-week exercise training and counselling intervention offered to low risk, sedentary students seeking counselling services at a mid-sized Canadian University. The participants included 49 (male, n = 16; female, n = 32; gender invariant, n = 1) university students (71% undergraduate) with a mean age of 23.08 years (SD = 4.97). Students completed one unsupervised (60 minutes) and two supervised (45 mins each) exercise training sessions per week. Students also attended weekly individual exercise counselling sessions (30 minutes each). The Mental Health Inventory-38 (MHI-38) was used to measure changes in the three subscales of psychological distress: 1) anxiety, 2) depression, and 3) loss of emotional control. Results: Paired samples t tests demonstrated significant decreases in anxiety and depression scores from pre-to post-intervention (ps < .05). No significant change was found for loss of emotional control from pre-to post-intervention (p > .05). Conclusion: The findings provide evidence for the effect of exercise in reducing university students’ psychological distress. Consequently, exercise is an additional mental health service for this population, alleviating strain on campus counselling services.

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“…Emotion, affect Ballantyne, Packer & Sutherland 2016Buckley 2016Buckley , 2018aBuckley , 2020aChen & Li 2018;Gao et al 2019;Hetland et al 2019;Knobloch, Robertson & Aitken 2017;Niedermeier et al 2017;Pestana, Parreira, & Moutinho 2020;Prayag et al 2015;Rahmani, Gnoth & Maher 2019;Wang, Hou & Chen 2021. Recovery, rescue Buckley 2019Buckley & Westaway 2020;Clough et al 2016;Fenton et al 2017Fenton et al , 2018Frühauf et al 2016;Holland et al 2018;Iwasaki et al 2014;Levi et al 2018 Araújo et al 2019;Bélanger et al 2019;Chekroud et al 2018;Pasanen et al 2019;Sturm et al 2020Public health Hartwell et al 2012Lehto & Lehto 2019…”

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Tourist Mental Health Drives Destination Choice, Marketing, and Matching

Cooper¹,

Buckley

2021

Journal of Travel Research

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Leisure tourism, including destination choice, can be viewed as an investment in mental health maintenance. Destination marketing measures can thus be analyzed as mental health investment prospectuses, aiming to match tourist desires. A mental health framework is particularly relevant for parks and nature tourism destinations, since the benefits of nature for mental health are strongly established. We test it for one globally iconic destination, using a large-scale qualitative approach, both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tourists’ perceptions and choices contain strong mental health and well-being components, derived largely from autonomous information sources, and differing depending on origins. Parks agencies emphasize factual cognitive aspects, but tourism enterprises and destination marketing organizations use affective approaches appealing to tourists’ mental health.

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The Impacts of Recreation Programs on the Mental Health of Postsecondary Students in North America: An Integrative Review

Cited by 42 publications

References 56 publications

Mental health rescue effects of women's outdoor tourism: A role in COVID-19 recovery

Mental health rescue effects of women's outdoor tourism: A role in COVID-19 recovery

The UWorkItOut UWin Program: Improving University Students’ Psychological Distress through Physical Activity

Tourist Mental Health Drives Destination Choice, Marketing, and Matching

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