Effects of flowering and foliage plants in hospital rooms on patients recovering from abdominal surgery
Effects of flowering and foliage plants in hospital rooms on patients recovering from abdominal surgery
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DOI：
10.21273/horttech.18.4.563
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发表时间：
2008-10-01
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通讯作者：
Mattson, Richard H.
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作者：
Park, Seong-Hyun;Mattson, Richard H.
使用各种医疗和心理测量，这项研究进行了一项随机临床试验，手术病人，以评估如果在医院房间的植物有治疗的影响。90名阑尾切除术后恢复的病人被随机分配到有植物或没有植物的病房。植物治疗室的患者在术后恢复期间观看了八种树叶和开花植物。收集的数据包括每例患者的住院时间、用于术后疼痛控制的镇痛药、生命体征、疼痛强度评级、疼痛困扰、焦虑和疲劳、状态-特质焦虑量表Y-1、环境评估量表和患者房间满意度问卷。与对照组患者相比，在有植物和鲜花的病房中，患者术后镇痛药的摄入量明显减少，收缩压和心率降低，疼痛，焦虑和疲劳评分降低，对病房的积极感受和满意度更高。这项研究的结果表明，医院环境中的植物可能是非侵入性的，廉价的，并且是腹部手术后恢复的患者的有效补充药物。
Using various medical and psychological measurements, this study performed a randomized clinical trial with surgical patients to evaluate if plants in hospital rooms have therapeutic influences. Ninety patients recovering from an appendectomy were randomly assigned to hospital rooms with or without plants. Patients in the plant treatment room viewed eight species of foliage and flowering plants during their postoperative recovery periods. Data collected for each patient included length of hospitalization, analgesics used for postoperative pain control, vital signs, ratings of pain intensity, pain distress, anxiety, and fatigue, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Form Y-1, the Environmental Assessment Scale, and the Patient's Room Satisfaction Questionnaire. Patients in hospital rooms with plants and flowers had significantly fewer intakes of postoperative analgesics, more positive physiological responses evidenced by lower systolic blood pressure and heart rate, lower ratings of pain, anxiety, and fatigue, and more positive feelings and higher satisfaction about their rooms when compared with patients in the control group. Findings of this research suggested that plants in a hospital environment could be noninvasive, inexpensive, and an effective complementary medicine for patients recovering from abdominal surgery.