Study on the Influence of Forest Therapy on Healing Experience in Botanical Gardens.

NCT05228704 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: TCHIRB-11002014
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 42
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The forest healing system is an important topic of alternative therapy in recent years. To study the influence of Forest therapy, the establishment of a pilot experimental model system in which both environmental factors and type of activity are necessary. Therefore, a system based on the Taipei Botanical Garden was introduced by this study.

Conditions

Nature, Human

Keywords

Forest therapy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (14)

• questionnaire: BPOMS (1st)

  Change from baseline Brief Profile of Mood States at first intervention

  baseline, pre-intervention(1st) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(1st)

• questionnaire: BPOMS (2nd)

  Change from Brief Profile of Mood States at second intervention after 7-day-washout period \& cross-over

  pre-intervention(2nd) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(2nd)

• questionnaire: BAI (1st)

  Change from baseline The Beck Anxiety Inventory at first intervention

  baseline, pre-intervention(1st) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(1st)

• questionnaire: BAI (2nd)

  Change from The Beck Anxiety Inventory at second intervention after 7-day-washout

  pre-intervention(2nd) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(2nd)

• questionnaire: BDI-II (1st)

  Change from baseline The Beck Depression Inventory II at first intervention

  baseline, pre-intervention(1st) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(1st)

• questionnaire: BDI-II (2nd)

  Change from The Beck Depression Inventory II at second intervention after 7-day-washout

  pre-intervention(2nd) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(2nd)

• questionnaire: BSRS-V (1st)

  Change from baseline Brief Symptom Rating Scale V at first intervention

  baseline, pre-intervention(1st) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(1st)

• questionnaire: BSRS-V (2nd)

  Change from Brief Symptom Rating Scale V at second intervention after 7-day-washout

  pre-intervention(2nd) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(2nd)

• physiological indicator: alpha-amylase activity in salivary (1st)

  Change from baseline alpha-amylase activity in salivary by using commercial kits (Salimetrics®) at first intervention

  baseline, pre-intervention(1st) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(1st)

• physiological indicator: alpha-amylase activity in salivary (2nd)

  Change from alpha-amylase activity in salivary by using commercial kits (Salimetrics®) at second intervention after 7-day-washout

  pre-intervention(2nd) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(2nd)

• physiological indicator: HRV (Heart Rate Variability) (1st)

  Change from baseline HRV by using wrist monitors (ANSWatch®) to measure heart rate, heart rate variability (related to activities of the autonomic nervous system ANS), irregular heartbeats (IRRHB), and 5-minute continuous pulse wave at first intervention

  baseline, pre-intervention(1st) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(1st)

• physiological indicator: HRV (Heart Rate Variability) (2nd)

  Change from HRV by using wrist monitors (ANSWatch®) to measure heart rate, heart rate variability (related to activities of the autonomic nervous system ANS), irregular heartbeats (IRRHB), and 5-minute continuous pulse wave at second intervention after 7-day-washout

  pre-intervention(2nd) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(2nd)

• physiological indicator: blood pressures (systolic and diastolic) (1st)

  Change from baseline blood pressures by using wrist monitors (ANSWatch®) to measure blood pressures (systolic and diastolic) at first intervention

  baseline, pre-intervention(1st) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(1st)

• physiological indicator: blood pressures (systolic and diastolic) (2nd)

  Change from blood pressures by using wrist monitors (ANSWatch®) to measure blood pressures (systolic and diastolic) at second intervention after 7-day-washout

  pre-intervention(2nd) → 2 hours intervention → immediately after the intervention(2nd)

Study Arms (2)

activities in the Botanical Garden or Urban

EXPERIMENTAL

experiment group is activities in the Botanical Garden, and the control group is activities in urban

Behavioral: activities in the Botanical Garden or in urban

Cross-over design

OTHER

The participants are randomized divided into in two groups following by the experiment which is designed by two consecutive times at one week intervals, and the experimental activities and the control activities are staggered.

Behavioral: activities in the Botanical Garden or in urban

Interventions

activities in the Botanical Garden or in urban BEHAVIORAL

activities in the Taipei Botanical Garden or in Urban

Cross-over design; activities in the Botanical Garden or Urban

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 35 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• years old youth (not limited to men and women)
• Those who have the ability and physical strength to walk for more than 120 minutes
• Subjects must voluntarily join the study

You may not qualify if:

• People who smoke or chew betel nuts
• People who have the habit of drinking (drinking more than five standard glasses in any situation)
• Drug addiction (including narcotic drugs and non-narcotics) habitual
• Those who have taken psychosomatic drugs in the past 30 days
• Participating in another clinical trial at the same time, or in the follow-up period of an interventional trial
• Those diagnosed with major injuries
• Women who are currently pregnant or breastfeeding
• Conditions where other subjects cannot cooperate (for example: unable to participate after random assignment, and not signing the subject's consent form)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Taipei City Hospital: lead

Study Sites (1)

Taipei city hospital

Taipei, 10845, Taiwan

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Exercise

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Motor Activity; Movement; Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena; Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena

Study Officials

• Chung-Hua Hsu

  Branch of Chinese Medicine, Taipei City Hospital

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Sponsor Type: OTHER GOV
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Clinical Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 8, 2021
• First Posted: February 8, 2022
• Study Start: April 27, 2021
• Primary Completion: April 27, 2021
• Study Completion: October 26, 2021
• Last Updated: February 8, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-01

Locations

TW (1)