2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Development of Physiological Evaluation Method in Horticultural Therapy-Verifying Stress Reduction of Clients and Supporting Staff in Clinical Site

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22500637
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Applied health science
Research Institution	University of Hyogo
Principal Investigator	TOYODA Masahiro 兵庫県立大学, 大学院・緑環境景観マネジメント研究科, 准教授 (30445051)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	TOICHI Motomi 国立大学法人京都大学, 大学院・医学研究科, 教授 (50303764)
Research Collaborator	AMANO Tamaki 公立大学法人兵庫県立大学, 大学院・緑環境景観マネジメント研究科, 講師 (40591607)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	心身の健康 / 園芸療法
Research Abstract	The results of this study suggest that salivary chromogranin A is effective as a mental stress biomarker and VAS and STAI are effective as psychological indicators in evaluating the stress reduction effects in clinical horticultural therapy. The flower arrangement task had some characteristics such as using flowers with comfortable stimulation, being feasible with acquired and residual abilities. The study suggests that these features of horticultural therapy may reduce mental stress of the elderly with dementia biologically and physiologically and furthermore, lead to psychological stress reduction of the staff members attending the activities as supporters.

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