A prospective study of existential issues in therapeutic horticulture for clinical depression

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-81

  Gonzalez, Marianne Thorsen ^a   Hartig, Terry ^b   Patil, Grete Grindal ^a   Martinsen, Egil Wilhelm ^c   Kirkevold, Marit ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESSION; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; HORTICULTURAL THERAPY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORWAY; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; HORTICULTURAL THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955694747     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01612840.2010.528168     Document Type: Article

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