NCT05338372

Effects of Forest Therapy on Physical and Psychological Parameters in the General Population

Forest Therapy on Physical and Psychological Parameters in the General Population

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 178 (actual)
• Sponsor: Charite University, Berlin, Germany · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In recent years, nature and forest therapy has increasingly become the focus of medical research. Recent scientific findings indicate overall positive effects of nature and forest therapy on physical and mental health. In Asia and Australia, it has already been implemented as a public health concept of prevention and health promotion. The aim of the project is to replicate the experience gained in Asia over the last three decades on the physical and psychological effects of nature/forest therapy in the context of the German forest and to investigate it further scientifically.

Conditions

• General Population

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Two days forest therapy	Participants attend two days (with a break day in between) of two-hour forest therapy at the Friedrichsruh, Barntrup or Wernigerode sites, led by an INFTA-certified forest therapy guide.
BEHAVIORAL	Three days forest therapy	Participants attend three days of two-hour forest therapy at the Friedrichsruh, Barntrup or Wernigerode sites, led by an INFTA-certified forest therapy guide.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-02
• Primary completion: 2022-06-04
• Completion: 2022-06-04
• First posted: 2022-04-21
• Last updated: 2022-10-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany