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Community Barefoot exercise and meditation beneficial for children’s mental health, researcher finds By Bex Bastable Contributor Published 4th Jul 2024, 14:21 BST Comment Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276 Visit Shots! now Research into the impact of barefoot exercise and meditation on young peoples’ mental health by a student from the University of Chichester could be ‘life changing’ for families. Gemma Peterson, who is studying a Master’s degree in Health Psychology , won £5,000 funding from the NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) Springboard Award for her Nature Blast (NB) project, which looks at the impact of nature-based interventions on children’s mental health and wellbeing . Gemma said: “Our intervention Nature Blast combines meditation, mindfulness and exercise outside barefoot, and within this study we measured the impact on wellbeing through qualitative focus groups.
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