A Study of Horticultural Therapy on the Well-being Promotion of People With Mobility Impairments

• Main Authors: TSUI-YEN,CHEN, 陳翠燕
• Other Authors: 郭毓仁博士
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7a6r4n

碩士 === 開南大學 === 健康照護管理學院健康照護技術碩士班 === 107 === People with mobility impairments, due to illness or congenital disability, are inconvenient in life, causing social dystunction and psychological depression. Many studies have revealed that horticultural therapy improves human’s well-beings. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of well-being and life satisfaction of horticultural therapy on people with mobility impairment, Thirteen members of “Taipei Life Resilience Health Association”participate in this research for an eight-weeks horticultural therapy program. Three forms are used as evaluation tools, including “The Efficacy of Horticultural Therapy Evaluation Form” (EHTE), “Life Satisfaction Scale” (LSS), and “Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale” (ZSDS). The results showed that the clients had significant differences in various items of the well-beings after the eight weeks program. The ZSDS scores decreased from 41.46 to 38.38 indicating that the stress was reduced. The LSS scores were significant different (P value was 0.0026) after the eight weeks program. The relationship makes people better because of the release of emotions. This study provides a reference for people with mobility impairments as an activity plan。 Keywords: mobility impairments, social functional, depression mood, EHTE, horticultural therapy