Caregivers Training Using Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality
- Conditions
- Medication Errors and Other Product Use Errors and IssuesCaring
- Interventions
- Other: Virtual RealityOther: controlOther: Augmented realityOther: 360 videos
- Registration Number
- NCT05885334
- Lead Sponsor
- Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunitat Valenciana
- Brief Summary
What the investigators propose. The use of disruptive digital technologies for their potential to improve caregivers training, ensure the adequacy of care and achieve a greater quality of life for recipients; increase the efficiency of interventions to support caregivers, quickly reaching a greater number of people; democratize access to adequate care; dignify the lives of people working in this sector, mostly women; develop a new sector of the economy by promoting the modernization and technification of the sector. The project seeks to place people at the center of interventions while respecting their digital rights. The investigators identify as disruptive technologies those based on recent innovations (such as virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence AI) with a high capacity to evolve rapidly, adapting to very different needs and sectors, and a high capacity to generate new business models. These emerging technologies open up new opportunities to improve the well-being of dependent people, provide new skills (including soft ones) to caregivers and would be also useful against gender stereotypes in the caregiving sector.
- Detailed Description
Feasibility study of VR/AR/AI applications to the context of caregiver training in three phases including mixed methodologies: (1) qualitative (to collect key information to elaborate immersive environments for VR/AR-based interventions), (2) experimental (to test the effectiveness of the intervention targeting caregivers (informal and formal) to provide safe home care, including cost-effectiveness analysis, (3) prototype development to capture and analyze the performance of home care to promote improvements in training programs through VR/AR. General objective. The primary aim is to investigate whether the provision of care in the home of persons suffering multiple pathologies and polypharmacy by trained formal/informal caregivers using VR/AR is more efficient than traditional training. Secondary aims are to provide competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) that contribute to reducing care and medication errors made by caregivers, contributing to recipients staying at home for as long as possible; and to determine to what extent AI allows us to continuously update the VR training material. This Project is in line with the WHO SDG3 "Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages". It also responds to the WHO challenge of Medication Without Harm. At national level, this study reinforces those policies aim to strengthen the new care economy and reduce the gender equality gap (Component 22, June 16, 2021).
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 333
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Virtual Reality Virtual Reality Virtual Reality intervention specifically designed for this study. Using VR to learn procedures will encourage caregivers to learn in a fully immersive and participatory environment where they will have to interact with the virtual content, enhancing their learning experience. Naturalistic Intervention control Natural intervention (actual provision of information and answering of questions). This arm will evaluate the natural learning during the action. Augmented Reality Augmented reality Augmented Reality Intervention specifically designed for this study. This intervention will increase participants' skills through active learning as they interact with real-world care situations while receiving simultaneous support from AR devices. Videos with 360 degrees 360 videos Intervention using immersion 360 degrees specifically designed for this study. Participants enrolled in this arm, by completing it, is assumed that will experience a form of learning more participatory and immersive than conventional videos, as they can interact with the content by changing the camera angle.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in number of caring errors and medication errors 6 months The evaluation of the effectiveness of each of the arms will be measured, among other ways, by recording two attempts to execute the care situation to be trained in the intervention.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Fundación Fisabio
🇪🇸San Juan De Alicante, Alicante, Spain