Virtual Reality Effect in Geriatric Individuals

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Pain; Depression
• Interventions: Other: virtual reality game

• Registration Number: NCT04268589
• Lead Sponsor: Selcuk University

Brief Summary

This study aimed to determine the effect of a virtual reality experience on pain, depression and functional adequacy in geriatric individuals living in a nursing home.

A virtual reality video with dance moves has been applied to the experimental group participants. Each video takes 3 minutes, and the elderly person has been put into practice at least 30 minutes after having breakfast in 3-minute periods and at least 30 minutes after dinner. In the morning and evening, 15 minutes, 2 times a day, a total of 9 days were applied for 3 weeks. The application lasted a total of 3 weeks. Scales were applied 1 week after the virtual reality application was completed and 1 month after the experimental group. The scales were filled in the control group at the same time.

Detailed Description

It is recommended that the future studies be conducted with larger samples on pain, depression, life quality and functionality.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-05-01
• Primary Completion: 2019-06-30
• Study Completion: 2019-06-30
• Study First Submitted: 2020-01-21
• Status Verified: 2020-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-02-12
• Study First Posted: 2020-02-13
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-02-13
• Last Update Posted: 2020-02-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 14

Inclusion Criteria

• Suffering from musculoskeletal pain in the last 3 years,
• Being energetic (Being independent in the daily life activities),
• Being able to stand up without help before 30 seconds and walk at least six meters without help,
• Individuals with blood sugar ranging between 90-200 mg/dl prior to the application,
• Individuals with blood pressure ranging between 130-70 mm/Hg prior to the application,
• Not having neurological and psychiatric diseases,
• No history of fall,
• Being literate,
• Not being visually-hearing impaired,
• Being able to communicate verbally.

Exclusion Criteria

• Pependent patients
• Patients with psychiatric illness
• Patients with joint pain disease diagnosis

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
virtual reality group	virtual reality game	Three days a week, 2 times a day, 15 minutes in the morning and in the evening for 9 days in total

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The visual analog scale (VAS)	nine days	This form includes numbers and is used in the assessment of pain severity. Patients mark their pain severity on a 10 cm ruler which is written no pain on one side and the most severe pain as possible on the other side. It has been stated that VAS is more sensitive and reliable in the measurement of pain severity than one sized scales
Geriatric Depression Scale	nine days	The scale was developed by Yesavage with the aim of assessing the depression symptoms of old persons and consists of 15 questions in total. In the assessment, 1 point is given to each "no" answer in the positive questions and to each "yes" answer in the negative questions. A score of 6 and higher in the scale is accepted as meaningful for the diagnosis of depression. Reliability and validity tests were performed in our country and Chronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient was found to be 0.92

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Osmangazi University; 🇹🇷 Eskişehir, Turkey