Assessment of Exercise Capacity in Virtual Reality

The Opole University of Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Volunteers

Treatments: Device: Exercise capacity test; Device: Exercise capacity test in virtual reality

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04197024

OpoleUofTech1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The 20th century brought a dynamic development of new technologies, including virtual reality (VR). VR is an artificial image generated by IT technologies. It is most often associated with entertainment, but has a much wider application in other fields. The aim of the study is to assess the influence of the application of immersive virtual reality during an exercise capacity test on a bicycle ergometer.

Full description

Scientists suggests that there are four types of virtual reality: immersive virtual reality, desktop virtual reality (i.e., low-cost homebrew virtual reality), projection virtual reality, and simulation virtual reality. The sense of presence or immersion is a critical feature distinguishing virtual reality from other types of computer applications. It seems interesting whether immersion in virtual reality can influence the assessment of exercise capacity. The aim of the study is to assess the influence of the application of immersive virtual reality during an exercise capacity test on a bicycle ergometer. It is assumed that an exercise capacity test on a cycloergometer will be performed in a traditional form and in a virtual reality.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Female and male, age: 20-25 years

Exclusion criteria

1. diagnosed internal diseases
2. diseases and injuries of the locomotors system impairing the function of transport 3 Cognitive disorders preventing contact with the patient, Mini-Mental State Examination < 24 points.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Traditional exercise capacity test

Experimental group

Description:

Patients of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration hospital in Głuchołazy with a diagnosed disease unit of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Treatment:

Device: Exercise capacity test in virtual reality

Device: Exercise capacity test

Immersive virtual reality exercise capacity test

Experimental group

Description:

Healthy volunteers, Students of Department of Physical Education and Physiotherapy, Opole University of Technology, Opole, Poland

Treatment:

Device: Exercise capacity test in virtual reality

Device: Exercise capacity test