NCT07059390Not yet recruiting
Concurrent Trials on Nature-Based Therapy for Inpatients in Dementia and Rehabilitation Medicine Wards
Changi General Hospital Complementary Health Therapy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 23 Mar 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Nature-based Therapy, such as forest bathing and horticultural therapy, has been shown to have physical, psychological and emotional health benefits. We posit that personalised and guided Nature-based Therapy, which leverages the benefits of therapeutic gardens in an urban hospital setting, improves the overall wellbeing of elderly inpatients with dementia (aged \>65 years old) and their caregivers, as well as patients undergoing inpatient rehabilitation. To determine the effectiveness of Nature-based Therapy for these two inpatient populations, we designed a pilot study, TGIF, to be conducted at the dementia and rehabilitation medicine wards at Changi General Hospital in Singapore.
- Status (registry)
- Not yet recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 1600 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 26 Jun 2025
- Start date
- 1 May 2027
- Primary completion date
- 30 Jun 2028
- Lead sponsor
- Changi General Hospital
- Diseases
- Stroke
- NCT number
- NCT07059390
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 1600
- From 1 May 2027 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2028
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Poorly managed psychiatric or behaviour symptoms with threats to others surrounding them.
Age
- Age \< 21 years
Other
- In isolation due to contact, droplet or airborne precautions
- Unable to provide consent and lack of surrogate decision maker to provide consent
- Patients who are haemodynamically unstable.
- Patients on strict bed rest
Who the study is looking for
- Patients with dementia:
- Age 65-100 years old
- Have a diagnosis of delirium/ dementia or both.
- Have diagnosis of dementia with and without behavioural symptoms of dementia (BPSD)
- Ability to communicate with the Nature-based Therapist (in languages such as English, Mandarin Chinese, Chinese dialects or Malay)
- Manageable behavioural symptoms and able to focus attention for minimum of 30 minutes
- Rehabilitation Medicine patients:
- Age 21-100 years old
- Acquired brain injury with residual impairments, which can be either in the i) motor, and/or ii) cognitive domains, and/or iii) suspected or diagnosed mood disorders (including adjustment disorder, depression and anxiety disorders) -patients would then be stratified according to the category(s) of impairments both for consideration of interventions and for outcome measures/analysis
- Additional Physical/Cognitive Criteria required will depend on range of specific therapeutic activities that could be prescribed/administered (eg.at least 1 upper limb with Manual Muscle Testing (MMT) of at least 3/5, with ability for active grasp/release, ability to sustain attention for the duration of the session, cognitive Functional Independence Measure (FIM) score of at least 25 points etc)
Age in the registry: 21 years to 100 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Changi General Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Singapore | Singapore | Unknown status |
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