Gardening Activities for the Elderly Psychological Well-Being and Depression

Elderly Person Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Gardening Activities Applied to The Elderly in Nursing Home on Psychological Wellness and Depression: A Single Blind Randomized Controlled Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05256680
• Other study ID #: Ordu1234
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: April 2023
• Source: T.C. ORDU ÜNIVERSITESI
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Purpose of the Study: This research will be conducted to determine the effects of gardening activities applied to the elderly in nursing homes on psychological well-being and depression. Research Hypotheses H0: Gardening activities applied to the elderly in the nursing home do not affect the psychological well-being of the elderly. H1: Gardening activities applied to the elderly in nursing homes increase the psychological well-being of the elderly. H0: Gardening activities applied to the elderly in the nursing home do not affect the depression level of the elderly. H1: Gardening activities applied to the elderly in nursing homes reduce the depression level of the elderly.

Description:

This study was planned as a single-blind randomized controlled experimental study.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 46
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Staying in a nursing home for at least 3 months,
• Does not have a physical disability that may hinder gardening activities,
• No vision or hearing loss that may hinder gardening activities,
• Open to communication and cooperation,
• The elderly who volunteer to participate in the study will be included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Having a serious medical disability (such as paralysis, Parkinson's),
• Having a serious psychiatric diagnosis,
• Severely demented and
• The elderly who do not want to continue the research will be excluded from the research.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Depression
• Elderly Person

Intervention

Other:
• Gardening Activities
In the research, the elderly in the experimental group will have gardening activities once a week for 3 months. No intervention will be applied to the elderly in the control group during the research. They will participate in routine activities in the nursing home.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Hacer GOK UGUR	Ordu	Altinordu

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
T.C. ORDU ÜNIVERSITESI

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Psychological Well-Being Scale	The Turkish validity and reliability studies of the scale, which was developed by Butler and Kern (2016), in order to evaluate the well-being levels of individuals, were conducted by Demirci et al. (2017), made by The scale consists of 15 items, 8 fillers and 5 sub-dimensions.; In the evaluation of the scale, the average score of the items of each dimension is taken. However, none alone explains the level of well-being; each dimension contributes to well-being. In addition, apart from the dimensions of well-being, Butler and Kern (2016) stated that 6 of the 8 fillers in the scale were H health (4th, 13th and 18th items) and N negative emotions (7th, 14th and 20th items). added as a separate size.	12 weeks
Primary	Geriatric Depression Scale	Yesavage et al. (1993) based on self-report. The short form of GDS consisting of 15 questions will be used in this study. The Turkish validity and reliability study of the scale was performed by Ertan et al. (1997), by 5 questions (1st, 5th, 7th, 11th and 13th) in the scale are structured positively and the others negatively. In the evaluation of the scale, "no" answers to positive questions and "yes" answers to negative questions were matched with 1 point each. The scores that can be obtained from the scale are between 0-15. Above five points is considered as depression. The cronbach alpha value of the scale is 0.92.	12 weeks