U.S., Sept. 29 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07845214) titled 'EFFECTS OF HORTICULTURAL THERAPY ON ACUTE STRESS AND SALIVARY CORTISOL LEVELS IN HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS' on Sept. 22.
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the acute psychological and physiological effects of a single-session structured horticultural therapy program on patients undergoing routine hemodialysis. The study is designed as a two-arm, parallel, pretest-posttest randomized controlled trial conducted at Bingol State Hospital.
Participants are randomized (1:1) to either an experimental group receiving a 45-60 minute individual horticultural therapy session (e.g., planting and caring for Tagetes erecta, Cel...