The Use of Virtual Reality to Combat Weight-Based Implicit Bias Among Physicians in Training at Brigham and Women's Hospital: A Pilot Study
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- Enrolling By Invitation
- 入组人数
- 52
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Implicit Association Test
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this pilot implementation study is to evaluate the impact of a virtual reality (VR) intervention on implicit bias for resident physicians. The main question it aims to answer are:
Does watching VR experience of two clinical encounters reduce implicit bias association test scores? Is the VR experience an acceptable intervention tool for reducing implicit bias?
Researchers will compare weight-based VR experiences consisting of two observed clinical encounters to a neutral education VR encounter to see if our intervention significantly impacts implicit bias association scores.
Participants will be asked
- Complete Implicit Association test for weight-based bias pre-intervention and post-intervention (immediately, at one week, and one month after the intervention) to assess their implicit bias
- Watch either experimental clinical encounter videos or neutral education video using a VR headset
- Participants will also complete an abbreviated IAT related to views on compliance
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Resident physicians associated with Brigham and Women's Hospital
- •Resident physicians providing informed consent to participate
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Implicit Association Test
时间窗: From enrollment to one-month post-intervention
Participants in both experimental and control arms will take four implicit association tests: one pre-VR to assess baseline, immediately post-VR, one-week, and one-month. Impact of VR experimental experience will be assessed for significant changes in IAT scores between the pre-VR test and the post-VR tests.
次要结局
- Resident Impression of Virtual Reality Implicit Bias Project(One-month post-VR)
研究者
Daniel Palazuelos
Principal Investigator
Brigham and Women's Hospital