Trial reportScientific reports2024
Impact of horticultural therapy on patients admitted to psychiatric wards, a randomised, controlled and open trial.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02666339 (Mélisses Garden), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Mélisses Garden: Effect of the Mediation by Care-garden on Anxious State in Adult Patients Hospitalized in Psychiatry (Prospective, Monocentric, Controlled, Randomized, Open in Two Parallel Groups Study)
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The effectiveness of nature-based interventions on mental health: A systematic review.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026Pooled it
- How duration and frequency influence horticultural therapy's effect on depressive symptoms: evidence from a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Timing for green prescription: comparing the immediate and cumulative effects of different duration horticultural therapy programs on college students' mental health.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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9 authors.
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Abstract
Psychiatric inpatients often endure anxiety. This randomized trial assessed the impact of horticultural therapy on anxiety in adult psychiatric inpatients over four weeks, compared to standard care. Recruiting 211 inpatients from six units were randomized into control (n = 105) and experimental (n = 106) groups. Control received usual care; the experimental group had horticultural therapy alongside usual care. Anxiety, measured using HADS-A scale at four weeks, aimed to establish horticultural therapy's superiority. After four weeks, horticultural therapy significantly reduced anxiety compared to standard care (P < 0.001). These results argue in favor of integrating horticultural therapy into psychiatric nursing practices.Trial registration: No Clinical Trail: NCT02666339 (1st registration: 28/01/2016).
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