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Healing Agriculture Activities are Brain Waves of Individuals with Adult Developmental Disabilitie Impact On

치유농업 활동이 성인발달장애인의 뇌파에 미치는 영향

  • Kyung-Nam Park (Department of Horticulture, Kongju University) ;
  • Jae-Myun Lee (Department of Horticulture, Kongju University) ;
  • Jae-Yeon Jeong (Department of Horticulture, Kongju University) ;
  • Gye-yeong Heo (Neuroscience Research Institute, Seoul University of Buddhism)
  • 박경남 (공주대학교 원예학과) ;
  • 이재면 (공주대학교 원예학과) ;
  • 정재연 (공주대학교 원예학과) ;
  • 허계영 (서울불교대학원대학교 뇌과학연구소)
  • Received : 2023.10.11
  • Accepted : 2023.10.25
  • Published : 2023.10.31
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Abstract

This study was conducted to examine the effects of care farming activities on the brain waves of adults with developmental disabilities from September 2022 to December 2022, with a total of 16 sessions held once a week. For 28 adults with developmental disabilities, 15 participants in the care farm program and 13 participants who did not participate were used as the control group. Before and after the care farming activities, participants' self-esteem, happiness levels, and brain function indices were measured through surveys and electroencephalography (EEG). Consequently, the self-esteem of the participants in the experimental group significantly increased after the activity, and as for the brain function index, the left brain activity index related to stress, attention, brain function, and emotional state increased compared to the control group in the experimental group of adults with developmental disabilities, especially intellectual disabilities. Notably, the effect of care farming activities was greater for women than for men with intellectual disabilities. Therefore, considering the differential effects of care farming activities based on the type of developmental disability and sex, it is deemed advantageous to primarily apply these activities to women with intellectual disabilities in order to maximize the healing effect of care farming.

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