Effects of Horticultural Therapy on Depression and Self-esteem of Elderly Visual Disabilities

Kim, Minjung; Kim, Inhea; Lee, Nara; Huh, Keun-Young; Choi, Kyoung-Ok

doi:10.11628/ksppe.2014.17.6.433

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“…This indicates that the forest therapy program is effective in relieving elderly depression and stress (Table 4). This is also consistent with the results of previous studies that forest healing factors such as plants and factors have positive effects on depression and stress, which proved that horticultural therapy relieves depression of the elderly with visual impairment (Kim et al, 2014), group horticultural therapy relieves depression of the elderly (Han et al, 2009), green spaces and program activities that involve contact with plants lower elderly stress (Kang et al, 2015), participating in a forest therapy program decreases the level of depression (Shin and Oh, 1996), the therapeutic functions of forests relieve depression (Shin et al, 2007), and therapeutic functions of forests relieve elderly depression (Lim et al, 2014). Effects of the forest therapy program for dementia prevention according to the general characteristics of participants…”

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Changes in Depression and Stress of the Middle-Aged and Elderly through Participation in a Forest Therapy Program for Dementia Prevention

Hong

Park

Lee

2019

J. People Plants Environ

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Various health and social issues related to the elderly are emerging in line with the rapid aging of the population. In particular, dementia currently has a prevalence of about 10 percent of the elderly population in South Korea, which increases financial and social burdens to not only individual patients but also their caring family. To assess the effects of participating in the forest therapy programs for dementia prevention, this study recruited participants aged 50 and above and tested their depression (Korean form of Geriatric Depression Scale; KGDS) and stress response (Modified form of Stress Response Inventory; SRI-MF), which are emotional aspects of dementia. As a result, KGDS showed a significant decrease of 3.2 points from 8.4 to 5.2 points, and SRI-MF showed a significant decrease of 7.2 points from 40 to 32.8 points, indicating a statistically significant improvement in both. In addition, participants with minor depression and high level of stress in the pretest showed statistically significant improvements in the SRI-MF for men, and the KGDS and SRI-MF for women. Furthermore, there were statistically significant improvements in KGDS for participants in their 60s and in SRI-MF for those in their 70s in terms of age, and in both KGDS and SRI-MF for participants with chronic diseases and in KGDS for participants without chronic diseases. This study confirmed the effects of forest therapy on the prevention of the emotional aspects of dementia and laid the groundwork for increasing the applicability of forest therapy by obtaining a place for dementia prevention as a field of forest therapy.

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Section: Effects Of Participating In the Forest Therapy Program For Dsupporting

confidence: 92%

Changes in Depression and Stress of the Middle-Aged and Elderly through Participation in a Forest Therapy Program for Dementia Prevention

Hong

Park

Lee

2019

J. People Plants Environ

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“…Horticultural therapy programs increased self-esteem of the institutionalized elderly with dementia as they gave out the works they had made to people around them as a gift and felt proud watching the plants they had planted growing (Kong et al, 2015). In this study as well, the sub- depression as they showed off and gave out their works as a gift, thereby increasing self-esteem (Jeong et al, 2010, Kim et al, 2014. Moreover, aromatherapy and color therapy improve self-esteem by stimulating the senses and relieving stress, anxiety and tension (Kim, 2008).…”

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“…As a result of examining the changes in self-esteem of 10 women with hearing impairment before and after horticultural therapy, it was found that all 10 subjects showed increased scores after the programs ( hearing impairment before therapy was 22.5. which is higher than that among elderly with dementia at 11.0 (Kong et al, 2015) but lower than that among the elderly with visual impairment at 23.5 (Kim et al, 2014) and female elderly with geriatric diseases 24.1 (Jeong et al, 2010),…”

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“…Session 8 'making a wreath' was most not preferred by the subjects (1.6 points). Difficult, new and diverse horticultural therapy programs may rather increase psychological anxiety for people with visual impairment due to experience and fear about failure (Han et al, 2009;Kim et al, 2014).…”

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“…Moreover, the institutionalized elderly with geriatric illnesses also showed an increase in confidence by creating various horticultural works and outcomes through horticultural therapy. Moreover, by obtaining the opportunity to express negative emotions such as anger, helplessness and sorrow as well as irrational thoughts, they showed improvement in self-esteem by rating themselves positively (Kim et al, 2014;Yoo and Jeong, 2010).…”

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Improved Self-Esteem in Women with Hearing Impairment after Horticultural Therapy and Subjects’ Program Preference

Moon

Yoo

2019

J. People Plants Environ

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This study was conducted to determine the effects of horticultural therapy on self-esteem of women with hearing impairment. Ten women with hearing impairment registered in the Mokpo Branch of the Korean Association of the Deaf participated in the horticultural therapy programs (HTP) for self-esteem. The self-esteem scale was used to evaluate the effects of the programs and scores were compared to determine the difference before and after the programs. Self-esteem was improved in all 10 subjects, and its mean value increased with statistical significance from 22.5 points before the programs to 29.8 points after the programs. The programs preferred by women with hearing impairment included 'making a centerpiece using scented candles and flowers', 'packing and planting pot spray chrysanthemum', 'making a topiary', 'planting Hedera helix', and 'planting cyclamen'. Therefore, it was suggested that self-esteem of women with hearing impairment were improved by increasing social and family support, emotional stability, positive feedback, and self-expression through horticultural therapy programs.

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Effects of Horticultural Activities Leisure Program on Mental Health and Life-Satisfaction of the Rural Elderly

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2013

J. Korean Soc. People Plants Environ.

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This study is to examine in the effectiveness of mental health and life satisfaction for old men after participating horticultural activities leisure program(HALP) in rural communities. The subject is who lives in a town K village, and who is over 60 using village center. Each group consists of experimental and control groups was 20. The methods of statistical analysis used in this study, were Mann-Whitney U-test and Wilcoxon signed rank test. From the result in respect of the average variation of mental health and life satisfaction as performing HALP, it showed statistically significant between groups. In regard of the average variation of mental health before and after of performing the HALP, it showed statistically significant within experiment group. Also, in the average variation of life satisfaction before and after of performing the HALP, it showed statistically significant within experiment group.

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Effects of Horticultural Therapy on Depression and Self-esteem of Elderly Visual Disabilities

Cited by 5 publications

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Changes in Depression and Stress of the Middle-Aged and Elderly through Participation in a Forest Therapy Program for Dementia Prevention

Changes in Depression and Stress of the Middle-Aged and Elderly through Participation in a Forest Therapy Program for Dementia Prevention

Improved Self-Esteem in Women with Hearing Impairment after Horticultural Therapy and Subjects’ Program Preference

Effects of Horticultural Activities Leisure Program on Mental Health and Life-Satisfaction of the Rural Elderly

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