The Clinical Application of Horticulture Therapy in Psychiatric Rehabilitation

NCT ID: NCT00912249

Last Updated: 2009-06-03

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

30 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-04-30

Brief Summary

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Horticultural Therapy (HT) uses plants, gardening, and the close relationship between well-beings and plants. It integrates effort, hope, expectation, harvest and the enjoyment of whole process to help people with disabilities. During the process, patient can learn more about themselves and experience the nature.

It can be traced to 1798, Dr. B. Rush found farm work helped people with mental illness. Today, horticulture therapy is well applied in disabilities, elderly and children. It needs detailed evaluation for the condition of illness to achieve optimal efficacy. It contains two parts- to sense and to operate! Patients can relax themselves and learn to work with others, realize the responsibility of caring another life, understand their relationship with environment. Patient can tolerate frustration better via acceptance the withered plants. In cultivation, it trains patient the occupational technique ( to operate instrument), communication, social skill, independence, stable mood.

Based on studies, 0ne third patients with mental illness stabilized after treatment. However, aggressive rehabilitation is necessary to maintain their function. In our study, it plans to incorporate horticulture therapy into psychiatric clinical practice in our hospital. We plan to recruit horticulture therapist, visiting staffs, residents, occupational therapists and nurses to participate the design and operation in class.

This program will recruit patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, organic brain syndrome and other mental illness in our daycare. We will help patients with personal treatment record. We will use case study to report some typical cases. All the cases will be investigated qualitatively with intensive interview to explore the subjective experience on this therapy. We will also use simple questionnaire to found quantitative study in the further.

To sum up, this program helps the connection for horticulture therapy and psychiatric rehabilitation. It promotes " patient-centered" support and offers physical, mental , social, spiritual services. It not only produces academic performance but fulfills the ideal of holistic health care!

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Horticulture Therapy in Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Horticultural Therapy

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Horticulture Therapy

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

We will design courses of Horticultural therapy to provide to the Patients in Day Care Unit

Interventions

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Horticulture Therapy

We will design courses of Horticultural therapy to provide to the Patients in Day Care Unit

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 18\~65 both sexes
* Adequate daily function for horticultural activities
* Day care patients or referred from OPD
* Willing to accept and cooperate with H/T

Exclusion Criteria

* Substance abuser or PD
* Severe suicide or harmful behaviors
* Severe physical problem impeding horticultural activities
* Lack of motivation for H/T
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

Principal Investigators

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Chun-lin Chen, MD, MA

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

Locations

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Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

Banqiao District, , Taiwan

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Taiwan

Central Contacts

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Chun-lin Chen, MD, MA

Role: CONTACT

886-2-89667000 ext. 4918

Facility Contacts

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Chun-lin Chen, MD, MA

Role: primary

886-2-89667000 ext. 4918

Other Identifiers

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098019-3

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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