EVEN - Effects of VR on Empathy for Nature in Patients With Psychosis and Depressive Disorders / Effekte Von Virtueller Realität (VR) Auf Naturverbundenheit Und Empathie in Patient:Innen Mit Psychotischen Und Depressiven Erkrankungen
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 60
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Nature Connectedness
研究概览
简要总结
Study group: Experimental study to evaluate empathy, compassion, and nature connectedness before and after an immersive virtual reality experience in patients with depressive disorder, patients with psychotic disorder and healthy control subjects (subjects between 18 and 65 years of age).
Primary hypothesis: The increase in nature connectedness explored by virtual body ownership of a tree in VR differs depending on the health condition (schizophrenia, depression, healthy controls).
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Control
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •age: 18-65 years
- •Inpatients and outpatients treated at the Psychiatric University Clinic of the Charité at St.
- •Hedwig Hospital
- •diagnosis of depressive disorder (ICD-10: F32.X, F33.X) or diagnosis of schizophrenia (F20.X) or healthy controls without psychiatric diagnosis
- •able to provide written informed consent
排除标准
- •Acute suicidality or danger to others
- •Primarily treatment-requiring eating disorder
- •Acute dermatological condition affecting the hands that can distort skin conductivity measurements
- •Control group: psychiatric or psychosomatic pre-diagnoses (except for the psychiatric active control group), other exclusion diagnoses corresponding to the patient group
结局指标
主要结局
Nature Connectedness
时间窗: For all groups pre and directly post VR exposure
Measurement of Nature Connectedness as a state with the "Inclusion of Nature in Self" (INS)-Questionnaire (Kleespies et al., 2021), pre and post VR exposure.
次要结局
- Embodiment - Feeling of virtual body ownership(post VR exposure for all groups (within the same session of 1 hour))
- Compassion(For all groups pre and directly post VR exposure (within the same session of 1 hour))
- Presence in VR(post VR exposure for all groups (within the same session of 1 hour))
- Empathy(For all groups pre and directly post VR exposure (within the same session of 1 hour))
- symptom burden(For the VR study group (patients with depressive disorder) and VR active control group (patients with psychotic disorder) pre and post VR exposure (within the same session of 1 hour))
- Spirituality(pre VR exposure for all groups)
- Virtual Reality Simulator Sickness(post VR exposure for all groups (within the same session of 1 hour))
- Explorative evaluation of electrodermal activity (EDA)(during (approx. 5 minutes) VR exposure)
研究者
Alva Lütt
Dr. med. Alva Lütt, MD
Charite University, Berlin, Germany