Anxiety
Persistent worry and tension, scored on a symptom scale or diagnosed as an anxiety disorder.
Studies use symptom scales such as the GAD-7 or the STAI, or a clinical diagnosis. Depression on this atlas is a separate mood disorder on its own scales, and perceived stress is a single feeling of being overloaded. Anxiety is the worry-and-tension score.
Also called anxiety symptoms, generalized anxiety, anxiety disorder.
Connected relationships
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Meta-analysis · Low
Green space exposure→Anxiety
Higher green space exposure decreases anxiety.
People with access to a garden had lower odds of anxiety: a pooled odds ratio of 0.73 in a meta-analysis of studies from the pandemic years.