AR vs In Person Simulation for Medical Workplace Training

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Augmented Reality

Treatments: Behavioral: Augmented Reality Headset

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05674188

68663

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will evaluate the physiologic and emotional effects of an augmented reality (AR) simulation versus an in-person simulation. This is a single institution, non-inferiority, randomized controlled trial. The target enrollment will be 100 participants in each group for a total of 200 participants. One group will wear an AR headset and participate in an AR medical crisis scenario and the other group will participate in the same scenario with a traditional, mannequin based in situ simulation.

Enrollment: 111 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hospital providers, including nurses, physician assistants, physicians, physician trainees, and other healthcare workers at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) and affiliated facilities who communicate with patients daily will be included

Exclusion criteria

• Participants with reported severe motion sickness
• Nausea
• Seizure disorder
• Currently using chronotropic heart medications, such as β blockers

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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111 participants in 2 patient groups

Augmented Reality Enhanced Simulation (Treatment group)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will experience augmented simulations with a holographic mixed-reality setting based on different workplace scenarios such as medical error and workplace harassment via Augmented Reality (AR) headset.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Augmented Reality Headset

Traditional In Situ Simulation (Control group)

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants will experience in-person simulations of different workplace scenarios such as medical error and workplace harassment