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Horticultural therapy for general health in the older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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  • Zhijie Wang
  • Yu Zhang
  • Shanshan Lu
  • Linlin Tan
  • Wei Guo
  • Mark Lown
  • Xiaoyang Hu
  • Jianping Liu

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Background: With a pronounced and historically unprecedented tendency of population ageing, research on ageing and related disorders has been increasingly brought into focus. Horticultural therapy (HT), as an important role of social prescribing, has been an integrative for decades. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate HT for general health in older adults. Methods: Electronic databases including PubMed, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, the Cochrane Library, MEDLINE (Ovid), EMBASE (Ovid), CINAHL (EBSCO), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and the Wanfang database, grey literature databases and clinical trials registers were searched from inception to March 2021. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs), quasi-RCTs (QRCTs) and the cohort studies about HT for adults aged over 60 were included in this study. Outcome measures were physical function, quality of life, BMI, mood tested by self-reported questionnaire and the expression of the immune cells. The study was registered under PROSPERO (CRD42019146184). Results: Totally, fifteen studies (thirteen RCTs and two cohort studies) involving 1046 older participants were included. Meta-analysis showed that HT resulted in better quality of life (MD 2.09, 95% CI [1.33, 2.85], P

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  • Zhijie Wang & Yu Zhang & Shanshan Lu & Linlin Tan & Wei Guo & Mark Lown & Xiaoyang Hu & Jianping Liu, 2022. "Horticultural therapy for general health in the older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(2), pages 1-16, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0263598
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263598
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