Biological and Behavioral Outcomes of Community Nature Walks

Официальное название

Examining Anti-Racist Healing in Nature to Protect Telomeres of Transitional Age BIPOC for Health Equity

Обзор

The investigators will test the efficacy of our proposed intervention to reduce embodied stress in four racial/ethnic groups (Black, Latinx, Pilipinx, and Pacific Islander) as a preventative intervention for health disparities found in these communities. The intervention is comprised of two phases. The first consists of community nature walks in a pristine redwood forest for six months. This is followed by chosen nature activities with family and/or friends for three months. The investigators will test the ability of these activities in nature to reduce chronic stress that underpins many health disparities using validated biological, behavioral, and sociocultural measures. The use of these measures is in alignment with the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Research Framework, and will increase understanding of individual, interpersonal, community, and social level factors that lead to, and that can eliminate health disparities.

Подробное описание

The investigators will test the efficacy of our proposed intervention to reduce embodied stress in four racial/ethnic groups (Black, Latinx, Pilipinx, and Pacific Islander) as a preventative intervention for health disparities found in these communities. The intervention is comprised of two phases. The first consists of community nature walks in a pristine redwood forest for six months. This is followed by chosen nature activities with family and/or friends for three months. The investigators will test the ability of these activities in nature to reduce chronic stress that underpins many health disparities using validated biological, behavioral, and sociocultural measures. The use of these measures is in alignment with the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Research Framework, and will increase understanding of individual, interpersonal, community, and social level factors that lead to, and that can eliminate health disparities.

Вмешательства

• Поведенческое Reclaiming Nature Intervention
  The purpose of the community intervention is to prevent health disparities in Black, Latinx, Pilipinx, and Pacific Islander communities of San Francisco, California.

Первичные конечные точки

• Relative Telomere Length [Срок оценки: Baseline (pre-intervention), during intervention, immediate post-intervention, 3 months after intervention]

Вторичные конечные точки (3)

• Hair cortisol concentration [Срок оценки: Baseline (pre-intervention), during intervention, immediate post-intervention, 3 months after intervention]
• Self-reported stress (extent of) [Срок оценки: Baseline (pre-intervention), during intervention, immediate post-intervention, 3 months after intervention]
• Positive mood (extent of) [Срок оценки: Baseline (pre-intervention), during intervention, immediate post-intervention, 3 months after intervention]

Критерии участия

Inclusion critieria:

• 18 years or older
• able to commit to a 9-month Nature Intervention (6-month walks; 3-month chosen nature activity)
• spoken languages: English, Spanish, or Tagalog
• able-bodied as in must be able to walk.

Критерии исключения

• pregnant women (and other gender identities who are pregnant)
• prisoners
• cognitively impaired

Критерии приведены из реестра в оригинале (на английском). Окончательную оценку соответствия проводит исследовательский центр.

Здоровые добровольцы: Да

Дизайн исследования

Распределение

Нерандомизированное

Модель

Последовательный дизайн

Маскирование

Открытое

Основная цель

Профилактика

Центры проведения

США · 1 центр

• San Francisco State University — San Francisco

Идентификаторы

NCT: NCT06056375 · X21-013

Первоисточники (государственные реестры)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH, США)

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