Impact of horticultural therapy on patients admitted to psychiatric wards, a randomised, controlled and open trial.

Psychiatric inpatients often endure anxiety. This randomized trial assessed the impact of horticultural therapy on anxiety in adult psychiatric inpatients over four weeks, compared to standard care. Recruiting 211 inpatients from six units were randomized into control (n = 105) and experimental (n = 106) groups.

[Work related stress in caregivers].

Health professionals have to endure the full force of the fast paced and sometimes paradoxical transformations of care facilities. Economic reasoning, standardisation and industrial management now govern the work of caregivers. They are sources of stress and destabilisation whereas caring is first and foremost an act of humanity.