Effects of Forest Therapy on Physical and Psychological Parameters in the General Population - a Randomized Controlled Trial

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: General Population (no Specific Condition or Disease)

Treatments: Behavioral: Passive forest therapy; Behavioral: Active forest therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05562128

KWT2

Details and patient eligibility

About

In recent years, nature and forest therapy has increasingly become the focus of medical research. Recent scientific findings indicate overall positive effects of nature and forest therapy on physical and mental health. In Asia and Australia, it has already been implemented as a public health concept of prevention and health promotion. The aim of the project is to replicate the experience gained in Asia over the last three decades on the physical and psychological effects of nature/forest therapy in the context of the German forest and to investigate it further scientifically.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ability to Consent

Exclusion criteria

• Serious acute or chronic illness
• Immobility or limitation of mobility due to orthopedic, neurologic, or other medical causes
• Participation in another study
• Serious mental illness
• Pregnancy and lactation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 3 patient groups

Active forest therapy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Active forest therapy

Passive forest therapy

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Passive forest therapy

Waiting list

No Intervention group