Mélisses Garden: Effect on Anxious State in Adult Patients Hospitalized in Psychiatry
NCT ID: NCT02666339
Last Updated: 2021-11-17
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
211 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2016-09-30
2021-08-27
Brief Summary
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These last years, numerous studies were based on hortitherapy or care-gardens. It consists in the use of plants with a medical staff (for example nurses). A lot demonstrated the efficacy of the care-gardens, but most of them showed methodological weaknesses.
That is why the investigators would like to perform a randomized study, controlled, and they aim to demonstrate the efficacy of hortitherapy on anxiety in patients allowed in adult psychiatry for at least 4 weeks.
Detailed Description
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These last years, numerous studies were based on hortitherapy or care-gardens. It consists in the use of plants with a medical staff (for example nurses). A lot demonstrated the efficacy of the care-gardens, but most of them showed methodological weaknesses : no control group, no randomization, few patients. Furthermore, these studies were not performed with feared patients hospitalized in psychiatry.
That is why the investigators would like to perform a randomized study, controlled, and they aim to demonstrate the efficacy of hortitherapy on anxiety in patients allowed in adult psychiatry for at least 4 weeks. This study will be performed on 190 patients who will be included in one of these groups:
* Control group : only usual care
* Hortitherapy group : 2 hortitherapy sessions/week during 4 weeks, added at the usual care.
Anxiety will be evaluated with HAD-A scale that is a brief questionnaire (2 at 6 minutes). HAD-A is very sensitive at the modifications and allows to follow the evolution of the anxiety. This scale is easy to use by the nursing staff and shows an excellent reliability, by the way really adapted to this study. On another hand researchers will also focus on the effects on the therapeutic alliance and the persistence of the effects at week 8.
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
NONE
Study Groups
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Hortitherapy group
Hortitherapy + Usual care
Hortitherapy
2 hortitherapy sessions/week during 4 weeks, added at the usual care.
Control group
Usual care
Usual care
Usual care : drug therapy, nurse and physician consultations.
Interventions
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Usual care
Usual care : drug therapy, nurse and physician consultations.
Hortitherapy
2 hortitherapy sessions/week during 4 weeks, added at the usual care.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Adult patient in complete hospitalization in psychiatry at CHU St-Etienne, with an anxiety score \> 8 at HAD-A (cut off)
* Patient with hospitalization programmed for at least 1 month
* Patient able to start a mediation
* Antitetanic cover up to date (quick test performed before the randomization)
* Patients who have given their informed consent before participation in the study or for patients under supervision , informed consent of the guardian
* Patient affiliated or entitled to a social security scheme
Exclusion Criteria
* Inability to complete the scales whatever the cause of this failure (language other than French, mental retardation ...).
* Patient whose behavior evaluated by the psychiatrist does not allow the indication of a mediation.
* Patient who already participated in the mediation of horticultural therapy
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Catherine MASSOUBRE, MD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
CHU SAINT-ETIENNE
Locations
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Chu Saint-Etienne
Saint-Etienne, , France
Countries
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References
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Joubert A, Jankowski-Cherrier B, Rossi A, Teyssier L, Suraud V, Presle E, Pommier R, Massoubre C, Verot E. Impact of horticultural therapy on patients admitted to psychiatric wards, a randomised, controlled and open trial. Sci Rep. 2024 Jun 22;14(1):14378. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-65168-0.
Other Identifiers
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2016-A00057-44
Identifier Type: OTHER
Identifier Source: secondary_id
1508192
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id