ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021
Virtual Therapeutic Garden: A Promising Method Supporting the Treatment of Depressive Symptoms in Late-Life: A Randomized Pilot Study.
Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05285501 (Immersive Virtual Therapeutic Garden as a Support for Late-Life Depressive Symptoms), which is not on this map. Cited by 35 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Immersive Virtual Therapeutic Garden as a Support for Late-Life Depressive Symptoms: a Randomized Clinical Trial
Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.
- How duration and frequency influence horticultural therapy's effect on depressive symptoms: evidence from a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- The effects of virtual reality technology on negative emotions in the elderly: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Acceptability, Feasibility, and Effectiveness of Immersive Virtual Technologies to Promote Exercise in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Pooled it
- Horticultural therapy for stress reduction: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of horticultural therapy in aged people with depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of Immersive Virtual Therapy as a Method Supporting the Psychological and Physical Well-Being of Women with a Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Trial
- Changes in concentration performance and alternating attention after short-term virtual reality training in E-athletes: a pilot study.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Virtual Therapy Complementary Prehabilitation of Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer-A Pilot Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Effects of Immersive Virtual Therapy as a Method Supporting Recovery of Depressive Symptoms in Post-Stroke Rehabilitation: Randomized Controlled Trial.Clinical interventions in aging · 2022Trial
- The Use of Virtual Therapy in Cardiac Rehabilitation of Female Patients with Heart Disease.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Trial
- A systematic review on mindfulness-based immersive interventions in depressive disorders.Npj mental health research · 2026Review
- Navigating Aging with Technology: A Scoping Review of Digital Interventions Addressing Intrinsic Capacity Decline in Older Adults.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The role of horticultural therapy in the clinical rehabilitation of patients with depression: A scoping review.The Journal of international medical research · 2026Article
- Timing for green prescription: comparing the immediate and cumulative effects of different duration horticultural therapy programs on college students' mental health.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Immersive virtual reality-based intervention for psychological wellbeing among older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
- The concept of the digital therapeutic garden and its psychological effects.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Non-Sleep Deep Rest Relaxation and Virtual Reality Therapy for Psychological Outcomes in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Review
- Pilot study of telehealth delivery of horticultural therapy (TeleHT) as an acceptable intervention and in reducing suicide risk factors in veterans.Complementary therapies in medicine · 2024Article
- Virtual Reality Mental Health Interventions in Geriatric Care for Functional or Well-being Enhancement - A Scoping Review.Die Rehabilitation · 2024Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The multifactorial genesis of old-age depression requires multi-professional therapy combining physical activity and psychosocial interventions; however, there is still a percentage of older people who do not exhibit satisfactory improvements. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual therapy in the elderly for whom the previous multimodal, biopsychosocial therapeutic programme had not brought the expected results. Twenty-five elderly women with depressive symptoms were randomly divided into a virtual reality group (VR,
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