<h5>What is mental health?</h5>  <p>A person's emotional, psychological, and social well-being is known as mental health. It impacts how a person feels, acts, and thinks. It also influences how a person deals with stress, communicates with others, etc. Mental health is crucial at all stages of life, from childhood and adolescence to old age.</p>
<p>Both mental and physical health is crucial for a person’s health. Mental health issues like anxiety, depression, etc. raise the risk of several physical health issues like diabetes and heart disease. A person's mental health can change over time due to various reasons like financial trouble, bad health, long working hours, etc.</p>
<p>Mental health issues have no specific reason. Various reasons like age, loneliness (always check on your friends), bad experiences from the past, etc., can affect one’s mental health. Recently, researchers have discovered that birdsong is good for mental health.</p> <h5>Oh wow! What have the researchers found?</h5> <figure>
        <img src="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/newsahoot.appspot.com/o/research-shows-birdsong-is-good-for-one%E2%80%99s-mental-health%2Fpeople-g69ef41185_1920%202.jpg?alt=media&token=e1efab20-e11a-4409-885c-6e25f6ae5bba" alt="Oh wow! What have the researchers found?" >
        <figcaption>A person suffering from anxiety and stress. </figcaption>
      </figure> <p>Birdsong has been found by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf to reduce anxiety and paranoia. Their research has been published in the journal “Scientific Reports.” So, the next time you hear a bird sing, stop and listen.</p>
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The study compared the effects of urban (traffic noise) and natural (birdsong) sounds on mood, paranoia, and cognitive function. The research hypothesised that birdsong improves these outcomes significantly.
</p> <h5>How was the research conducted?</h5>  <p>An online experiment was conducted on 295 participants by the researchers. For 6 minutes, participants were exposed to one of four types of sounds: low traffic noise, loud traffic noise, low birdsong, and loud birdsong. Participants filled out anxiety, depression, and paranoia questionnaires before and after hearing the sound recordings.</p>
<p>The questionnaires were filled out to assess the mental health of the participants. The findings of this study showed that listening to birdsong decreases anxiety and paranoia in healthy adults. However, birdsong did not appear to affect depressed moods. It was also found that traffic noise often increased depressive moods.</p>
<p>This is the first study to show the effect of birdsong on paranoid states. The researchers also discovered that neither birdsong nor traffic noise affected cognitive function. The researchers have explained that birdsong has these effects as they indicate a healthy natural environment. This diverts attention away from any stress a person is feeling.</p> <h5>Why is this research important?</h5>  <p>This research is important as birdsong can now potentially be used to prevent mental illnesses. They can be made easily accessible through audio CDs or even on other sites like YouTube, Spotify, etc. Based on the results of this research, further investigations can also be held, which can help better treat mental illness.
</p> <h5>What did we learn from this article?</h5>  <p>We can learn from this article how scientists are working to better our world and help people. Science can help us come up with answers to various mental health-related issues.
Do you enjoy listening to birds sing in the morning? Do let us know in the comment section.</p>

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