Does acute exposure to green and blue environments combined with Tai Chi exercise improve short-term emotional health in elderly males?
Exposure to blue and green environments combined with Tai Chi exercise improves short-term emotional health in elderly males, with blue environments providing the greatest benefit.
Acute exposure to different types of green and blue environments exerts positive effects on the short-term emotional health of elderly males. On this basis, acute exposure to different green and blue environments in combination with Tai Chi exercise further enhances short-term emotional outcomes in elderly males. Further, following this combined acute effect, continuous exposure to different green and blue environments maintains positive emotional changes for a longer duration during the recovery period. The environment types, ranked by the magnitude of acute positive changes and maintenance effects, are as follows: blue environment > balanced green-blue environment > green environment > conventional environment.
Zhang et al. (Wed,) studied this question.