NCT06813196

Forest Bathing Intervention for Persons Living with Dementia and Family Carers

Forest Bathing Intervention for Persons Living with Dementia and Family Carers: a Feasibility Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 107 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

• Dementia
• Caregiver Mental Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-22
• Primary completion: 2024-08-17
• Completion: 2024-08-17
• First posted: 2025-02-06
• Last updated: 2025-02-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong