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 E-Mail A study from North Carolina State University found outdoor play and nature-based activities helped buffer some of the negative mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for adolescents. Researchers said the findings, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, point to outdoor play and nature-based activities as a tool to help teenagers cope with major stressors like the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as future natural disasters and other global stressors. Researchers also underscore the mental health implications of restricting outdoor recreation opportunities for adolescents, and the need to increase access to the outdoors. Families should be encouraged that building patterns in outdoor recreation can give kids tools to weather the storms to come, said Kathryn Stevenson, a study co-author and assistant professor of parks, recreation and tourism management at NC State. Things happen in life, and getting kids outside regularl

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