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NCT Number: NCT05228704

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Nature, Human

Age range

20 year–35 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Taipei city hospital

Taipei, 10845, Taiwan

About this study

The forest healing system is an important topic of alternative therapy in recent years. Forest therapy began in 1989 when the psychology professor Kaplan put forward the "Attention Restoration Theory(ART)". Awareness has a positive benefit. 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 controlled can greatly reduce the errors caused by the site and the content of the activity. Therefore, a randomized controlled crossover experiment based on the Taipei Botanical Garden was introduced by this study.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • 20-35 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

Exclusion criteria

  • 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)

Treatment and study plan

activities in the Botanical Garden or in urban

Behavioral

activities in the Taipei Botanical Garden or in Urban

Primary outcomes

  1. questionnaire: BPOMS (1st)

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

    Change from baseline Brief Profile of Mood States at first intervention

  2. questionnaire: BPOMS (2nd)

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

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

  3. questionnaire: BAI (1st)

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

    Change from baseline The Beck Anxiety Inventory at first intervention

  4. questionnaire: BAI (2nd)

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

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

  5. questionnaire: BDI-II (1st)

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

    Change from baseline The Beck Depression Inventory II at first intervention

  6. questionnaire: BDI-II (2nd)

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

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

  7. questionnaire: BSRS-V (1st)

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

    Change from baseline Brief Symptom Rating Scale V at first intervention

  8. questionnaire: BSRS-V (2nd)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  11. physiological indicator: HRV (Heart Rate Variability) (1st)

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

  12. physiological indicator: HRV (Heart Rate Variability) (2nd)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Taipei City Hospital

Other Gov

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2021
First posted
Feb 8, 2022
Registry last updated
Feb 8, 2022

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