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Participation in Community Gardening: Sowing the Seeds of Well-Being: Participation au jardinage communautaire : pour semer les graines du bien-être

BACKGROUND. Sustaining well-being challenges people with serious mental health issues. Community gardening is an occupation used to promote clients’ well-being, yet there is limited evidence to support this intervention. PURPOSE. This paper examines how facilitated community gardening programs chang...

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Autores principales: Suto, Melinda J., Smith, Shelagh, Damiano, Natasha, Channe, Shurli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8240003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33761777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008417421994385
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Damiano, Natasha
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description BACKGROUND. Sustaining well-being challenges people with serious mental health issues. Community gardening is an occupation used to promote clients’ well-being, yet there is limited evidence to support this intervention. PURPOSE. This paper examines how facilitated community gardening programs changed the subjective well-being and social connectedness of people living with mental health issues. METHOD. A community-based participatory research approach and qualitative methods were used with 23 adults living in supported housing and participating in supported community gardening programs. A constructivist approach guided inductive data analysis. FINDINGS. Participation in community gardening programs enhanced well-being through welcoming places, a sense of belonging, and developing positive feelings through doing. The connection to living things and responsibility for plants grounded participants in the present and offered a unique venue for learning about gardening and themselves. IMPLICATIONS. Practitioners and service-users should collaborate to develop leadership, programs, places, and processes within community gardens to enhance well-being.
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spelling pubmed-82400032021-07-13 Participation in Community Gardening: Sowing the Seeds of Well-Being: Participation au jardinage communautaire : pour semer les graines du bien-être Suto, Melinda J. Smith, Shelagh Damiano, Natasha Channe, Shurli Can J Occup Ther Original Articles / Articles originaux BACKGROUND. Sustaining well-being challenges people with serious mental health issues. Community gardening is an occupation used to promote clients’ well-being, yet there is limited evidence to support this intervention. PURPOSE. This paper examines how facilitated community gardening programs changed the subjective well-being and social connectedness of people living with mental health issues. METHOD. A community-based participatory research approach and qualitative methods were used with 23 adults living in supported housing and participating in supported community gardening programs. A constructivist approach guided inductive data analysis. FINDINGS. Participation in community gardening programs enhanced well-being through welcoming places, a sense of belonging, and developing positive feelings through doing. The connection to living things and responsibility for plants grounded participants in the present and offered a unique venue for learning about gardening and themselves. IMPLICATIONS. Practitioners and service-users should collaborate to develop leadership, programs, places, and processes within community gardens to enhance well-being. SAGE Publications 2021-03-25 2021-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8240003/ /pubmed/33761777 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008417421994385 Text en © CAOT 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_short Participation in Community Gardening: Sowing the Seeds of Well-Being: Participation au jardinage communautaire : pour semer les graines du bien-être
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8240003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33761777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0008417421994385
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