Sixty nine research papers related with horticultural therapy were studied to develop a therapy program which could be applied to various kinds of participants under various circumstances and provide a basic data for development of new horticultural products. According to the papers, the most frequent forms of horticultural activities applied to therapy programs were found out to be plant culture indoor (type I), plant culture in outdoor garden (type II) and art and craft (type III). However, variations activities related with group activity (type IV), picnic (type V), cooking (type VI) and botanical study (type VII) were limited. These findings would be explained by the choice of therapists taking characteristics of individual participants available horticultural infrastructure into account.
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