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cord-256691-fn4bnnb9	Suyin Chalmin-Pui, Lauriane	“It made me feel brighter in myself”- The health and well-being impacts of a residential front garden horticultural intervention	2020-09-30		.txt	text/plain	9433	503	49	Pre-and post-wellbeing measures (subjective well-being, perceived stress, diurnal cortisol) were captured over a 2-week data collection period prior to and for at least 3 months after each intervention, with the experiment being repeated over a two-year period, using two sub-populations of residents (i.e. Groups A and B, Fig. 1 ). Data included how residents felt about their lives, well-being, mental and physical health, street, neighbourhood, community, engagement with nature and gardening, attitudes towards the intervention, motivations for participation in the research and expectations regarding the outcomes of the intervention. Thus, the data addresses Q1 and Q2, indicating the intervention reduced perceived stress levels, improved cortisol profiles and thereby had a positive effect on the residents' health status. The data presented suggests that adding plants and containers to residents' front gardens was associated with significant reductions in perceived stress (Q1) which was reflected in improved diurnal cortisol patterns (Q2) post-intervention (i.e. steeper diurnal declines, increased daily average concentration and total secretions compared to 'blunted' levels pre-intervention).	./cache/cord-256691-fn4bnnb9.txt	./txt/cord-256691-fn4bnnb9.txt