ReviewCampbell systematic reviews2019
The impact of care farms on quality of life, depression and anxiety among different population groups: A systematic review.
Review in Campbell systematic reviews, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Farmer-veterinarian interaction as multi-level situated learning: Negotiating health, risk, and responsibility in intensive pig farming - a scoping review.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- Urban Care Farming to Enhance Quality of Life Among Older Adults: Protocol for a Waitlist Randomized Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Does implementing care farms in psychiatric hospitals prevent staff burnout? A pragmatic, mixed-method pilot study.BMC research notes · 2026Article
- Urban care farming for older adults: a mixed-method feasibility and acceptability study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2025Article
- Social farming at the intersection of spirituality, well-being, and human health: a qualitative inquiry.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The Silver Agri Age project in Italy: a Montessori-inspired social intervention with older adults with mild cognitive impairment. Single-group pre-post pilot study protocol.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- A Nature-Based Intervention for Promoting Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Qualitative Study Using the COM-B Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- The Impact of Working with Farm Animals on People with Offending Histories: A Scoping Review.International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology · 2023Article
- Dogs at school: a quantitative analysis of parental perceptions of canine-assisted activities in schools mediated by child anxiety score and use case.International journal of child care and education policy · 2022Article
- Development Dynamics of Health and Social Infrastructure for the Long-term Care - the Case of the Posavje Region.Zdravstveno varstvo · 2021Article
- The impact of care farms on quality of life, depression and anxiety among different population groups: A systematic review.Campbell systematic reviews · 2019Review
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12 authors.
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Abstract
Care farming (also called social farming) is the therapeutic use of agricultural and farming practices. Service users and communities supported through care farming include people with learning disabilities, mental and physical health problems, substance misuse, adult offenders, disaffected youth, socially isolated older people and the long term unemployed. Care farming is growing in popularity, especially around Europe. This review aimed to understand the impact of care farming on quality of life, depression and anxiety, on a range of service user groups. It also aimed to explore and explain the way in which care farming might work for different groups. By reviewing interview studies we found that people valued, among other things, being in contact with each other, and feeling a sense of achievement, fulfilment and belonging. Some groups seemed to appreciate different things indicating that different groups may benefit in different ways but, it is unclear if this is due to a difference in the types of activities or the way in which people take different things from the same activity. We found no evidence that care farms improved people's quality of life and some evidence that they might improve depression and anxiety. Larger studies involving single service user groups and fully validated outcome measures are needed to prove more conclusive evidence about the benefits of care farming.
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