Effects of Vital Shower on Quality of Life, Immune Function, Cardiovascular Regulation and Well-being

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: General Population

Treatments: Device: Hansgrohe prototype

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05328856

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this exploratory randomized controlled clinical study is to evaluate the health-promoting effects of Kneipp hydrotherapy, in the form of the Vital Shower, a variation of the alternating warm and cold showers, in a four-week daily application. The hydrotherapy will be carried out in the home environment using a shower prototype from Hansgrohe.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female and male patients between 18 and 70 years of age

Exclusion criteria

• Bad general condition
• Serious acute or chronic comorbidity
• Pregnancy and breast feeding period/ in the next 6 months
• Participation in a clinical trial within the last 3 months before enrollment
• Simultaneous participation in another clinical trial
• Raynaud's disease or cold agglutinin disease
• Severe mental illness
• Insufficiently treated dermatological diseases (e.g. neurodermatitis, psoriasis)
• Non-compatible sanitary shower or bath devices

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Vital shower

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants receive the installation of a shower prototype from Hansgrohe and training including a handout. After installation, participants are asked to shower daily for four weeks according to a predefined shower protocol with alternating warm and cold water application.

Treatment:

Device: Hansgrohe prototype

Regular shower

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants are advised not to change their showering behaviour; at the end of the study, the participants receive an offer of a shower head for free.