Florida: Numerous studies have shown that spending time in the garden reduces stress and depression. However, there is now further evidence that gardening significantly reduces anxiety, depression,and stress.
According to research, gardening is a process whose benefits are immediately apparent and for the first time, the positive effects of this process are beginning to be felt. In this regard, the experts of the University of Florida spent twice a week gardening woman. For this, 32 women between the ages of 26 and 49 were recruited and all the women were healthy.
Half
of the women were engaged in gardening twice a week and the other half were
engaged in painting. The two groups met twice a week and held events a total of
eight times. The painting and gardening groups were then compared.
This
is because both painting and gardening involve planning, creativity and
physical activity. The medical and psychological effects of both are also
evident. But later, when the women involved in both cases were examined, it was
found that the gardening process proved to be more effective.
In
both cases, the effects of depression, anxiety and confusion were less
pronounced in horticultural women, but more research is needed. Although this
is a very small study, the beneficial psychological effects of spending time in
vegetables have been shown before.
That
is why the field of therapeutic horticulture had become an important one in the
nineteenth century and there is still more evidence of it.
