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Improving Lives: Gardening with Arthritis Pilot Project Results

Explore the successful Gardening with Arthritis Program, which aims to reduce pain, improve mood, and change behaviors for individuals with arthritis. By incorporating techniques, tools, physical structures, stretches, and body mechanics, this program addresses the challenges faced by arthritis patients when gardening. The program's results showcase a decrease in depressive symptoms and an increase in self-efficacy in managing pain limitations. Recommendations include moderate physical activity and making gardening easier on joints. Findings suggest the need for a larger sample size study with a control group and demonstrate potential benefits in areas such as aging and quality of life. Contact Bill Wright at Brown County UW-Extension for more information.

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Improving Lives: Gardening with Arthritis Pilot Project Results

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  1. 2010 Pilot Project Results Gardening with Arthritis

  2. Arthritis • Leading cause of disability in U.S. • Affects 1.1million Wisconsin residents (28%) • In Wisconsin, costs related to arthritis and other rheumatic diseases- $2.4 billion annually

  3. Recommendations • Moderate intensity physical activity at least 30 minutes 5 days a week • Improves function, level of pain, and frame of mind without aggravating arthritis symptoms • Only small percentage of U.S. population

  4. Why? • Reluctance due to joint pain, stiffness, reduced range of motion • Fatigue, comorbid conditions, perceived negative outcomes, and lack of social support • People must enjoy what they do for physical activity

  5. Gardening • 75 million households participate in some form of gardening • Digging, lifting, bending, kneeling, etc. can put stress on joints • How can we make gardening easier on joints?

  6. Gardening with Arthritis Program • Techniques • Tools • Physical structures • Stretches • Body mechanics

  7. Objectives • Reduce pain • Improve mood • Change behavior

  8. Qualification Questions • Doctor diagnosed arthritis • Garden one or more hours per week

  9. Gardening with Arthritis Project UW-Extension Evaluation Green Bay, WI July 2010 Intervention DVD Stretching Tool Demonstration Gardening Logs 6 weeks Gardening Logs 6 weeks May 2010 Sept 2010 X X Persons w arthritis Survey#1 X Persons w arthritis Survey#3 Persons w arthritis Survey#2

  10. Participant Characteristics • 94% female • 82% age 55 and older • 90% reported health as good or very good • Weekly Gardening • 38% -1 to 4 hours per week • 62% -5 or more hours per week

  11. Functional Limitation

  12. Depression • Percentage of participants with depressive symptoms • Pre-Intervention- 24.4% • Post-Intervention- 18.9%

  13. Self-Efficacy

  14. Pain

  15. Limitations • Small sample size • Single group

  16. Future • Larger sample size with control group • Lends itself to other areas- aging and quality of life, benefits of physical activity for other chronic conditions, etc.

  17. Thank you Bill Wright Brown County UW-Extension 1150 Bellevue Green Bay, WI 54302 920 391 4658 Wright_wp@co.brown.wi.us

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