Environmental Health, Department of International Social and Health Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, 23-3 Matsuoka Shimoaizuki, Eiheiji-cho, Yoshida-gun, Fukui, 910-1193, Japan.
Faculty of Nursing and Social Welfare Sciences, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui, Japan.
Int J Biometeorol. 2017 Dec;61(12):2141-2143. doi: 10.1007/s00484-017-1418-x. Epub 2017 Aug 4.
Twenty-nine urban inhabitants participated in a half-day climatotherapy programme at the moderate mountain area and lowland area in the northwest part of the main island of Japan. The current study was aimed to investigate physically and mentally the objective and subjective influence of our short programme, which was a prospective pilot study of single intervention. Blood pressure was significantly descended during terrain cure at the uphill mountain path and returned after fresh-air rest cure, while there was no significant change throughout the programme at lowland flat path. Heart rate was significantly ascended and descended at both area, and more clearly changed at the mountain path. Profile of Mood Status brief form Japanese version administered before and after our half-day programme. Age adjusted T score of negative subscales, 'tension-anxiety', 'depression', 'anger-hostility', 'fatigue' and 'confusion' were significantly lower after climatotherapy at both sites. Whereas, there was no significant change concerning 'vigour' score. This short-version climatotherapy programme has been designed for people without enough time for long stay at health resort. It turned out our half-day climatotherapy programme contribute to mood status improvement. In addition, repeated practice of our short-version programme including endurance exercise with cool body shell using uphill path can be expected that blood pressure will go toward the normal range and heart rate will decrease both in usual time and during exercise. Therefore, health benefits can be expected of this climatotherapy programme.
29 名城市居民参加了在日本主岛西北部的中海拔山区和低地进行的为期半天的气候疗法项目。本研究旨在客观和主观地调查我们的短期项目（单次干预的前瞻性初步研究）的影响。在山地路径上进行地形治疗时，血压显著下降，在新鲜空气休息治疗后恢复，而在低地平坦路径上整个项目期间没有显著变化。心率在两个区域都显著上升和下降，在山区路径上变化更明显。在我们半天的项目前后进行了日本版的心境状态简表（Profile of Mood States-brief form，简称 POMS-brief）。在经过气候疗法后，年龄调整后的负性分量表，即“紧张-焦虑”、“抑郁”、“愤怒-敌意”、“疲劳”和“困惑”的 T 分数显著降低，而“活力”分数没有显著变化。这个短版本的气候疗法项目是为没有足够时间在疗养胜地停留的人设计的。事实证明，我们的半天气候疗法项目有助于改善情绪状态。此外，包括使用上山路径进行凉爽身体外壳的耐力运动在内的我们的短版本方案的重复练习，可以预期血压将趋于正常范围，并且心率将在平时和运动期间降低。因此，可以预期这种气候疗法项目会带来健康益处。
