The mood-enhancing effect of viewing images of the natural environment in major depression and anxiety disorders
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- depressive disorder, anxiety disorder
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000046917
- Lead Sponsor
- Division of Neuropsychiatry, Department of Neuroscience, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete: follow-up continuing
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
1) Having strong suicide ideation. 2) Those who are judged to be unsuitable as research subjects by the researcher in charge of the experimental sessions (for example, those who cannot conduct the experiments smoothly due to physical illness).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1) Mood immediate after intervention evaluated by visual analog scale 2) Brain activations during intervention as evaluated by NIRS
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1) Heart rate and heart rate variability during intervention 2) The association between mood and brain activations 3) The influence of personal characteristics such as mental health states and cognitive functions on the effect of viewing the image of natural environment (eg, the more severe the depression, the greater the effect of viewing images) 4) Relationships among other personal characteristics