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Record W4407761301 · doi:10.18666/jorel-2025-12627

Nature-Based Programs and Youth Mental Health: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?

2025· article· en· W4407761301 on OpenAlexaff
Simon Beames, Marte Bentzen, Solfrid Bratland‐Sanda, Nevin J. Harper, Kaye Richards

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Outdoor Recreation Education and Leadership · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicYouth Development and Social Support
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNeed to knowMental healthPsychologyComputer sciencePsychotherapistComputer security

Abstract

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This paper provides commentary on two societal concerns: increasing levels of youth mental health issues, and the lack of large-scaled, widely implemented methods to respond to this concern. The authors explicate the twin problems of worsening youth mental health and the lack of large scale research examining approaches to tackle the trend, and focus on the role of nature-based programs in addressing these phenomena. Suggestions are provided for research designs which may yield vital knowledge on suitable methodologies and appropriate theoretical frameworks which can be harnessed to improve youth mental health through access to activities in natural environments.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.021
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.092
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.037
Threshold uncertainty score0.110

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0210.092
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.015
Scholarly communication0.0070.016
Open science0.0060.005
Research integrity0.0300.032
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.071
GPT teacher head0.362
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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