An Automated Virtual Reality Intervention to Enhance Firearm Safety Counseling in Pediatrics

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Motivational Interviewing; Medical Education; Gun Violence Prevention; Virtual Reality; Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Treatments: Behavioral: An Automated Virtual Reality Intervention to Support Firearm Safety Counseling in Clinicians

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT07265141

K18HD117377 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

2024-0538

Details and patient eligibility

About

Clinicians will complete a screen-based automated virtual reality training intervention to learn how to counsel caregivers of pediatric patients on secure firearm storage.

Full description

The investigators will recruit pediatric clinicians to participate in an automated screen-based virtual reality intervention. Clinicians will be recruited from clinical locations that offer a variety of setting types (urban, suburban, and rural).

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

- Pediatric Clinicians must meet one of the following inclusion criteria at each study site: Physicians (attending, fellow or resident), Licensed Nurse Practitioner, Physician's Assistant

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to read and write in English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

An Automated Virtual Reality Intervention to Support Firearm Safety Counseling in Clinicians

Experimental group

Description:

The automated virtual reality intervention allows clinicians to deliberately practice firearm safety counseling skills through verbal interactions with virtual characters with receipt of immediate feedback to support behavior change and mastery learning.

Treatment:

Behavioral: An Automated Virtual Reality Intervention to Support Firearm Safety Counseling in Clinicians