About this trial
Stroke rehabilitation patients are subjected to additional nature-based therapies during a rehabilitation ward period.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Acute/Subacute stroke
Rehabilitation ward patient
Disqualifiers
Incapable of independent decision making
Traumatic bleeding in brain tissue
Severe aphasia
Severe, malign ongoing disease
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Nature-based therapy
Procedure/SurgeryTherapy sessions conducted outdoors
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Functional ability
Evaluation of functional ability in intervention and control groups by Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information (PROMIS) questionnaire
Secondary outcomes
Quality of life by WHO Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS)
Evaluation of quality of life in intervention and control groups, measured by WHODAS questionnaire.
Assessment of the intervention impacts on rehabilitation
Evaluation of the impact of intervention into achieving the predetermined goals of rehabilitation. Measured by Goal Attainment Scale (GAS) in intervention and control group.
Psychological or psychotherapeutic effects
Evaluation of the effect of interventions to psychological well-being or psychotherapeutic effect in comparison to control groups. Measurement by Core-10-survey.
Intervention effects on microbiome
Measurement of the effect of intervention on participant microbiome compared to participant microbiome in the control group. Microbial analyses of stool, saliva and flakes of skin.
Sponsors and contacts
Click on the lead sponsor to view all of their trials.
Joint Authority for Päijät-Häme Social and Health Care
Lead sponsor
Helsinki University Central Hospital
Collaborator
University of Jyvaskyla
Collaborator
Tampere University
Collaborator
University of Eastern Finland
Collaborator
Natural Resources Institute Finland
Collaborator
University of Helsinki
Collaborator