Yasuo Ohe   Harrumi Ikei   Chorong Song   Yoshifumi Miyazaki   
TOURISM MANAGEMENT 62 322-334 2017年10月 [査読有り]
Considering the increasing demand for rural areas to play a role in easing stress mainly experienced by urban dwellers, we investigated from a multidisciplinary collaborative approach, i.e., physiological, psychological, and rural business managem...
Hiromitsu Kobayashi   Chorong Song   Harumi Ikei   Bum-Jin Park   Takahide Kagawa   Yoshifumi Miyazaki   
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 14(9) 987 2017年9月 [査読有り]
Salivary cortisol and secretory immunoglobulin A (S-IgA) are important biomarkers for environmental and public health research. The present study investigated the diurnal variations of these salivary biomarkers, with a focus on the change of distr...
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 14(9) 1017 2017年9月 [査読有り]
Nature therapy has been demonstrated to induce physiological relaxation. The psychophysiological effects of nature therapy (stimulation with bonsai trees) on adult male patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) were examined. Oxyhemoglobin concentrat...
Sin-Ae Park   Chorong Song   Yun-Ah Oh   Yoshifumi Miyazaki   Ki-Cheol Son   
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 14(9) 1087 2017年9月 [査読有り]
The objective of this study was to compare physiological and psychological relaxation by assessing heart rate variability (HRV), prefrontal cortex activity, and subjective indexes while subjects performed a task with and without foliage plants. In...
Hiromitsu Kobayashi   Chorong Song   Harumi Ikei   Bum-Jin Park   Juyoung Lee   Takahide Kagawa   Yoshifumi Miyazaki   
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 14(8) 931 2017年8月 [査読有り]
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a forest environment on salivary cortisol concentration, particularly on the characteristics of its distribution. The participants were 348 young male subjects. The experimental sites were 34...