Nature-based Therapies in Stroke Rehabilitation
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Nature-based therapy.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Rehabilitation, Stroke. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Finland
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Nature-based Therapies Supporting Conventional Therapies in Promoting Stroke Rehabilitation: a Randomised Controlled Pilot Study.
Overview
Stroke rehabilitation patients are subjected to additional nature-based therapies during a rehabilitation ward period.
Detailed description
Inward stroke rehabilitation patients are selected randomly into two groups: intervention and control groups in proportions 1-2:1. Blood samples and microbiome samples of saliva, skin and feces are taken from all patients prior to interventions. These are controlled after 4 weeks from the beginning of the study and 3 months after signing-off the ward. Questionnaires eg on moods, life quality and function deficits are conducted in the beginning of the study, after 4 weeks from the start and 3 months after signing-off. Physiological measurements will be done to observe autonomic nerve status. The interventions consisting of therapy sessions in the hospital nearby nature will be conducted thrice a week one of them being an individual nature-visit with the research worker, one in group and one with family-member or volunteer. The moods and quality of life of the family-member participating in the study will also be followed up. The control group is advised to do simple, more conventional rehabilitative tasks indoors.
Interventions
- Procedure Nature-based therapy
Therapy sessions conducted outdoors
Primary outcome measures
- Functional ability [Time frame: 0-30 days]
Secondary outcome measures (5)
- Quality of life by WHO Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) [Time frame: 0-30 days]
- Assessment of the intervention impacts on rehabilitation [Time frame: 0-120 days]
- Psychological or psychotherapeutic effects [Time frame: 0-30 days]
- Intervention effects on microbiome [Time frame: 0-120 days]
- Intervention effect on the activity of autonomic nerve system [Time frame: 0-30 days]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Acute/Subacute stroke
- Rehabilitation ward patient
Exclusion criteria
- Incapable of independent decision making
- Traumatic bleeding in brain tissue
- Severe aphasia
- Severe, malign ongoing disease
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Finland · 1 center
- Joint Authority for Päijät-Häme Social and Health Care — Lahti
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05898542 · Q062