e-Natureza Project - Affective Validation of Nature Images for Hospital Use (E-natureza)

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Other: Nature video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03518255

e-Natureza

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized clinical trial about the evaluation of the use of nature photographs in the positive and negative affects of oncological patients.

Full description

In recent decades there has been growing interest from researchers in understanding how the adoption of natural elements in daily life, even in hospitals, can characterize restorative environments and reflect in better health for patients. Contact with nature can be done indirectly through photographs. This clinical trial aims to verify the therapeutic potential of the nature images, previously validated in another part of this study, in the care of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Anchored on the assumptions of the theory of Biophilia, and the environmental theory of Florence Nightingale our study hypothesis is that this intervention promotes well-being and promote more positive mood states, and reduce symptoms resulting from the treatment during chemotherapy session.

Enrollment: 164 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Voluntary participation;
• Signed in the Informed Consent Form;
• Who are undergoing chemotherapy treatment;
• Patients need to be on the first chemotherapy session, independently of oncological disease;
• Patients with clinical conditions and preserved communication function, in other words, lucid patients.

Exclusion criteria

• Blind patients;
• Patients without the capacity for judgment, in other words, with dementia;
• Patients who have their clinical condition aggravated during the chemotherapy session.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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164 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

This control group will not receive an intervention.

Nature video

Experimental group

Description:

A pre-validated nature images video will be shown to the patient during their chemotherapy session. After thirty minutes of the start of the chemotherapy session, the patient you will receive a notebook (specific to the study and blocked for other functions) that he can watch a presentation of nature images. It will be four videos with fifteen minutes each one.

Treatment:

Other: Nature video