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Raanaas, Ruth K.Plant and Environmental Sciences (IPM), Ås, Norway
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Effects of an indoor foliage plant intervention on patient well-being during a residential rehabilitation program
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Language:English
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Effects of an indoor plant intervention in a Norwegian rehabilitation center were assessed in a quasi-experiment. During a 2-year period, coronary and pulmonary patients (N = 282) completed self-report measures of health, subjective well-being, and emotion on arrival, after 2 weeks, and at the end of a 4-week program. The intervention involved the addition of indoor plants for the second year. On average, patient physical and mental health improved during the program, but the addition of plants did not increase the degree of improvement. Subjective well-being did, however, increase more in patients who went through their program after the addition of plants, although the effect was only apparent in the pulmonary patients. The patients reported more satisfaction with indoor plants and the interior generally after the intervention. Room for the intervention to affect outcomes may have been limited by the well-designed interior and the center's location in a scenic mountain area, but these favorable features of the context apparently did not negate the potential for indoor plants to contribute to patient well-being.
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
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MEDICINE
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MEDICIN
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Grindal Patil, GretePlant and Environmental Sciences (IPM), Ås, Norway
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Hartig, Terry,1959-Uppsala universitet,Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF)(Swepub:uu)terrhart
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Plant and Environmental Sciences (IPM), Ås, NorwayInstitutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF)
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