Nature-based Therapies in Stroke Rehabilitation

Joint Authority for Päijät-Häme Social and Health Care

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Rehabilitation; Stroke

Treatments: Procedure: Nature-based therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05898542

Q062

Details and patient eligibility

About

Stroke rehabilitation patients are subjected to additional nature-based therapies during a rehabilitation ward period.

Full description

Inward stroke rehabilitation patients are selected randomly into two groups: intervention and control groups in proportions 1-2:1. Blood samples and microbiome samples of saliva, skin and feces are taken from all patients prior to interventions. These are controlled after 4 weeks from the beginning of the study and 3 months after signing-off the ward. Questionnaires eg on moods, life quality and function deficits are conducted in the beginning of the study, after 4 weeks from the start and 3 months after signing-off. Physiological measurements will be done to observe autonomic nerve status. The interventions consisting of therapy sessions in the hospital nearby nature will be conducted thrice a week one of them being an individual nature-visit with the research worker, one in group and one with family-member or volunteer. The moods and quality of life of the family-member participating in the study will also be followed up. The control group is advised to do simple, more conventional rehabilitative tasks indoors.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Acute/Subacute stroke
• Rehabilitation ward patient

Exclusion criteria

• Incapable of independent decision making
• Traumatic bleeding in brain tissue
• Severe aphasia
• Severe, malign ongoing disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Nature-based therapy intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Patients getting additional therapies outdoors

Treatment:

Procedure: Nature-based therapy

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients getting additional rehabilitation tasks indoors