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Psychological and Physiological Stress Improvement Effect of Gardening Program

  • Seung-hoon Hong (Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, Wise Campus, Dongguk University) ;
  • Hyukjae Lee (Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Garden Design, Wise Campus, Dongguk University)
  • Received : 2024.06.11
  • Accepted : 2024.09.01
  • Published : 2024.09.30
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Abstract

This study aimed to propose a gardening program that can be introduced in elderly care facilities and is effective by inducing active activities of the elderly, conducting a gardening program that can lead to healing functions and social activities, and identifying psychological and physiological changes before and after the gardening program is implemented. In order to achieve the above objectives, we conducted 30 gardening programs for 20 elderly people living at Chungju Senior Nursing Home from May 2023 to October of the same year to create three gardens. And as a result of evaluating the results of the gardening program, the psychological evaluation showed statistically improved results in most evaluation items, and the EEG improved to a statistically significant number as the gardening program was carried out in the measurement of mental and physical stress using EEG and pulse waves.

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Acknowledgement

This paper was carried out with the support of the Forest Service in 2023

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