Positive aging benefits of home and community gardening activities: Older adults report enhanced self-esteem, productive endeavours, social engagement and exercise [PDF]
SAGE Open Medicine, 2020 Objectives: This study examined relationships between home and community gardening and older adults’ self-reported psychosocial and physical well-being, attitudes to aging relative to gardening activities and benefits of membership to a gardening group ...
Theresa L Scott +2 more
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Evaluating the Impact of Community Gardening on Sense of Purpose for Persons Living with Dementia: A Cluster-Randomized Pilot Study [PDF]
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports, 2022 Background: Gardening has been shown to have positive effects on persons living with dementia, but no studies have explored the effects of gardening on sense of purpose.
Abigail C. Styck, Daniel R. George
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Improving lifestyles sustainability through community gardening: results and lessons learnt from the JArDinS quasi-experimental study [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Despite an increasing number of studies highlighting the health benefits of community gardening, the literature is limited by cross-sectional designs.
Marion Tharrey +6 more
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Community Gardening: Stress, Well-Being, and Resilience Potentials [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 The financial and health burdens of stress associated with increased urbanization have led to a demand for mental health enhancement strategies. While some extant literature details mental health benefits of community gardening, a coherent narrative on ...
Denise Dillon
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Participatory Action Research on the Impact of Community Gardening in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Investigating the Seeding Plan in Shanghai, China [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 This study aims to examine the impacts of community gardening on the daily life of residents and the management organisation of pandemic prevention in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, a major public health scourge in 2020.
Wenjia Li, Huaiyun Kou, Yuelai Liu
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Feasibility of Collection and Analysis of Microbiome Data in a Longitudinal Randomized Trial of Community Gardening [PDF]
Future Microbiology, 2020 Aim: We explored the feasibility of collecting and analyzing human microbiome data in a longitudinal randomized controlled trial of community gardening.
Maggie Stanislawski +2 more
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Community Gardening Increases Vegetable Intake and Seasonal Eating From Baseline to Harvest: Results from a Mixed Methods Randomized Controlled Trial. [PDF]
Curr Dev Nutr, 2023 Background Gardening has been associated with greater fruit and vegetable intake, but few randomized trials have been conducted. Objectives We sought: 1) to determine changes in fruits and vegetable intake combined and separately from baseline (spring ...
Alaimo K +6 more
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Effects of a community gardening intervention on diet, physical activity, and anthropometry outcomes in the USA (CAPS): an observer-blind, randomised controlled trial. [PDF]
Lancet Planet Health, 2023 Summary Background Unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and social disconnection are important modifiable risk factors for non-communicable and other chronic diseases, which might be alleviated through nature-based community interventions.
Litt JS +12 more
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Acceptability and Feasibility of Community Gardening Interventions for the Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases among Indigenous Populations: A Scoping Review. [PDF]
Nutrients, 2023 Compared with non-Indigenous populations, Indigenous populations experience worse health across many outcomes, including non-communicable diseases, and they are three times more likely to live in extreme poverty.
Emmanuel R +3 more
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The Impact of Therapeutic Community Gardening on the Wellbeing, Loneliness, and Life Satisfaction of Individuals with Mental Illness. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Background: literature on the mental health benefits of therapeutic community gardening is not specific to individuals with mental illness and reports short-term outcomes.
Wood CJ, Barton JL, Wicks CL.
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