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Forest Bathing Intervention for Persons Living with Dementia and Family Carers

NCT06813196 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 107

Last updated 2025-02-10

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Summary

This study assessed the feasibility and acceptability of a forest bathing intervention for people living with dementia and their family carers, and examined its effectivness on care burden and quality of life by comparing to an art activty programme as control group.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Forest Bathing

Forest bathing intervention is a group structured psychosocial intervention. Its core therapeutic element is its nature-based activities that took place in an outdoor green space. During the session, participants would be guided by a trained forest therapy guide to engage in nature-based activities, such as walking in the woods, listening to the nature, and interacting with objects in the nature through different sensations.

BEHAVIORAL

Art activity

Art activity intervention is a group semi-structured psychosocial intervention. Its main therapeutic element is its engagement in art-based activites. During the session, participants would be guided in individual or collaborative art activities of different forms, such as painting, paper arts, and dried flower art, by an experienced interventionist in an activity room.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association

    collaborator OTHER

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chak Pui Jacky Choy, PhD · The University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-04-22
Primary Completion
2024-08-17
Completion
2024-08-17

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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