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The Effect Of Horticultural Therapy On The Positive Emotions Of The Elderly With Mild To Moderate Dementia

Posted on:2020-10-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:N XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2437330572999710Subject:Social Work
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As of 2016,an estimated 47 million people worldwide suffer from cognitive disease,according to relevant statistics.That number is estimated to be 75.6 million by 2030 and 130.1 million by 2050.Related research shows that horticultural therapy has obvious auxiliary therapeutic effect on cognitive elderly,and has good benefits in physiological,psychological,cognitive,social,leisure,emotional,and other aspects of participants.In horticultural activities,aromatic plants have good emotional benefits,but in China there has not been any research on the emotional benefits of aromatic plants in horticultural therapy for cognitive elderly,so this study hopes to use horticultural therapy group program.Combined with the theory of positive emotion,a horticultural therapy was designed to improve the positive emotion of cognitive elderly.In addition,according to the seasonality of activities,plant characteristics,plant appearance feeling,whether plants are easy to take care of and so on,the green mint from aromatic plants was selected as the medium for this horticultural activity.In this study,the elderly in the S-community with mild to moderate cognitive syndrome in Shanghai were divided into experimental group and control group,and the pre-and post-test studies were carried out,supplemented by qualitative observations such as group observation records and case interviews to understand the research subjects.Experience and gains gained in the group.In this study,we used mini mental state scale,PANANS positive and negative emotional scale,horticultural well-being benefit scale,group record observation list and case interview record sheet for the elderly with cognitive disorder,and so on,and used the following tools: simple mental state scale,PANANS positive and negative emotional scale,horticultural welfare benefit scale,and so on.After that,the data were analyzed by SPSS17.0according to the results of pre-and post-test.Combined with the results of pre-and post-test analysis,the positive emotion of cognitive elderly was significantly increased,while the negative emotion was decreased.
Keywords/Search Tags:Horticultural therapy, Aromatic plants, Cognitive disorder, Positive emotion
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