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

Taipei City Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nature, Human

Treatments: Behavioral: activities in the Botanical Garden or in urban

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05228704

TCHIRB-11002014

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

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.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

activities in the Botanical Garden or Urban

Experimental group

Description:

experiment group is activities in the Botanical Garden, and the control group is activities in urban

Treatment:

Behavioral: activities in the Botanical Garden or in urban

Cross-over design

Other group

Description:

The participants are randomized divided into in two groups following by the experiment which is designed by two consecutive times at one week intervals, and the experimental activities and the control activities are staggered.

Treatment:

Behavioral: activities in the Botanical Garden or in urban