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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vassányi, István
• Szakonyi, Benedek
• Loi, Daniela
• Mantur-Vierendeel, Angelika
• Quintas, Joăo
• Solinas, Antonio
• Blažica, Bojan
• Raffo, Luigi
• Guicciardi, Marco
• Manca, Andrea
• Gaál, Balázs
• Rárosi, Ferenc

Titel

Impact of information technology supported serious leisure gardening on the wellbeing of older adults: The Turntable project

Ist Teil von

• Geriatric nursing (New York), 2024-01, Vol.55, p.339-345

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Gardening has been shown to have a positive effect on the perceived quality of life of elderly persons.•Though modern Information Technology (IT) solutions can strengthen different care services, these are usually not combined with gardening trials.•The paper presents the summary results of a recent quantitative, pre- and post-test field trial on IT-supported leisure gardening in a European setting.•We found significant improvements in the perceived quality of life of the participants. The study presented in this paper aimed to assess the effect of an Information Technology enabled community gardening program for older adults, developed by an international consortium. We have executed a quantitative, pre- and post-test field trial with older adult volunteers to test the proposed programme in two European countries, Italy and Belgium (n=98). We used standardized and ad hoc questionnaires to measure changes in the volunteers’ mental and psychological state during the trial. The statistical data analysis sought for differences in the pre- and post-test values of the key scores related to the perceived quality of life and benefits of gardening via paired-samples t-tests, and also tried to identify the important factors of significant changes via logistic regression. We found significant improvements in the perceived benefits of gardening and also in the scores computed from the WHO Quality of Life instruments, especially in the social sub-domains. The improvements were associated with the country, age, marital state and education of the volunteers. Higher age or being widow, divorced or single increased the odds of a significant improvement in the scores in more than one sub-domains. Though the two trial settings were different in some aspects, the observed significant improvements generally confirmed the positive effects of gardening concerning the perceived quality of life and benefits of gardening.