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

Taipei City Hospital42 enrolled

Overview

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.

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Nature, Human

Interventions

activities in the Botanical Garden or in urbanBEHAVIORAL

activities in the Taipei Botanical Garden or in Urban

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 20 YearsMax age: 35 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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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)

Locations (1)

Taipei city hospital

Taipei, Taiwan

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

questionnaire: BPOMS (1st)

Change from baseline Brief Profile of Mood States at first intervention

Time frame: 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

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

questionnaire: BAI (1st)

Change from baseline The Beck Anxiety Inventory at first intervention

Time frame: 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

Time frame: 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

Time frame: 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

Time frame: 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

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

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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