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dc.contributor.authorBuckley, Ralf Christopher
dc.contributor.authorWestaway, Diane
dc.contributor.authorBrough, Paula
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-23T00:13:40Z
dc.date.available2017-10-23T00:13:40Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn2296-2565
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpubh.2016.00257
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/100799
dc.description.abstractWe report results from a post-program survey (n = 930) of participants in a non-profit outdoor health program targeted principally at women with families in Australia’s metropolitan cities. We analyze communications, motivations, experiences, satisfaction, and intentions. The program involves 3 months’ outdoor training in scenic locations, culminating in a single-day event. Training includes social opportunities and peer-group support. Event entry is in teams and includes charitable fundraising and personal challenges. Drop-out rates are very low, and repeat sign-up high. There are 2,000–3,600 places per event, and the most recent sold out in <24 h. We propose that for urban residents of developed nations, individual interest in exposure to nature may be bimodal rather than unimodal. Programs of this type target individuals most likely to shift from low-interest to high-interest mode, using a set of social levers to change attitudes and behaviors. This contrasts with most public outdoor health programs, which assume a unimodal distribution and aim for small lifestyle changes at population scale. We suggest that the bimodal hypothesis is relevant to the sociocultural context of psychosocial interventions in a public health context, and merits direct testing.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFrontiers Research Foundation
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom257-1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto257-5
dc.relation.ispartofjournalFrontiers in Public Health
dc.relation.ispartofvolume4
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHealth services and systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic health
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMental health services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSport and exercise psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4203
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4206
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode420313
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode520107
dc.titleSocial mechanisms to get people outdoors: bimodal distribution of interest in nature?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, Griffith School of Environment
gro.rights.copyright© 2016 Buckley, Westaway and Brough. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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gro.griffith.authorBuckley, Ralf
gro.griffith.authorBrough, Paula


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