園藝治療乃是一個利用植物、園藝活動、以及自然環境來促進人們身心健康與福祉的過程。本研究目的在於探討園藝活動對慢性精神病患之休閒滿意度成效，研究者設計一為期九週，每週兩次、每次二小時，共計十八次之園藝團體，活動內容包含職能活動、室內盆栽、戶外栽植、戶外教學、以及遠足五大項，並以量化與質性訪談方式探討其對慢性精神病患之成效。該團體之參與者共計八名，以「休閒滿意度量表」及「活動回饋單」進行量化評量，再於團體結束後進行質性訪談。量化結果中顯示，園藝活動對於提升病患的休閒滿意度具有顯著的效益，此外，病患對於活動內容皆給予正向的回饋，其中以遠足項目最感滿意；而從質性訪談結果中可以歸納出，園藝活動於增進病患對生命的體會、促進注意力及提供一個情感轉移或連結的管道、以及培養其對周遭環境的覺察能力方面皆有相當的助益。因此，在提升慢性精神病患生活品質的同時，筆者期待能藉由本研究之結果供醫療專業人員參考。

The horticultural therapy is the process to enhance people's physical and mental health and welfare with plants, gardening activities, and the natural environment. The study explores the leisure satisfaction performance of the gardening activities on the chronic psychiatric patients. The eighteen gardening team activities, lasting for nine weeks with two hours at each time and twice every week, can be divided into five categories, which are the occupational activities, the indoor potting, the outdoor planting, the outdoor education, and the excursion. With the quantiative survey and the qualitative interviews, the performance on the chronic psychiatric patients is studied. Eight patients attended the team activities, and after the quantiative survey of LSS (Leisure Satisfaction Scale) and Activity Feedback Sheet, the qualitative interviews were conducted. In the quantitative survey, the gardening activities got the significant improvement in the LSS of the patients, and they gave the positive feedback to all the activities, especially the excursion. In the qualitative interviews, the gardening activities obviously enhanced the patients' understanding of and attention to their lives, provided the access to their affect transfer, and developed their perceptivity of their surroundings. Besides improving the quality of the chronic psychiatric patients' life, the study aims to offer the findings as reference for the professionals engaged in medical care.