NCT05472571

Pilot Project of Forest Bathing for Promoting Health

FOREST HEALTH: Pilot Project of Forest Bathing for Promoting Health, Human Wellbeing, and for Complementing Sustainable Management Forest and Landscape Practices

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (actual)
• Sponsor: Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

An exploratory trial using a cuasi-experimental design aimed to improve the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities. The intervention consists of 11 consecutive sessions of forest bathing (one session per week), each one lasting about 2 hours. Each session involves an easy walk through a forest area, interspersed with non-intrusive activities of contact with the surrounding nature aimed at fostering mindfulness and the use of the five senses. Data were collected at baseline, post intervention, and 7 months of follow-up.

Conditions

• Intellectual Disability

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Forest bathing	The intervention consists of 11 consecutive sessions of forest bathing (one session per week), each one lasting about 2 hours. Each session involves an easy walk through a forest area, interspersed with non-intrusive activities of contact with the surrounding nature aimed at fostering mindfulness and the use of the five senses.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-01
• Primary completion: 2021-07-31
• Completion: 2022-03-15
• First posted: 2022-07-25
• Last updated: 2022-07-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain