NCT03518255

e-Natureza Project - Affective Validation of Nature Images for Hospital Use

e-Natureza: Affective Validation of Nature Images as a Complementary Resource for Promoting Well-being in Hospital Environment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 164 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Randomized clinical trial about the evaluation of the use of nature photographs in the positive and negative affects of oncological patients.

Detailed description

In recent decades there has been growing interest from researchers in understanding how the adoption of natural elements in daily life, even in hospitals, can characterize restorative environments and reflect in better health for patients. Contact with nature can be done indirectly through photographs. This clinical trial aims to verify the therapeutic potential of the nature images, previously validated in another part of this study, in the care of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Anchored on the assumptions of the theory of Biophilia, and the environmental theory of Florence Nightingale our study hypothesis is that this intervention promotes well-being and promote more positive mood states, and reduce symptoms resulting from the treatment during chemotherapy session.

Conditions

• Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Nature video	After signing the Informed Consent Form, the participants will respond to a demographic questionnaire to characterize the sample and then they will watch nature videos. After that, will be applied a scale questionnaire about the physical and psychological symptoms of chemotherapy in the positive and negative mood of that patient.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-22
• Primary completion: 2021-02-08
• Completion: 2021-02-08
• First posted: 2018-05-08
• Last updated: 2021-02-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil