Digital Interventions for Detection and Reduction of Moral Distress (VR)

Unity Health Toronto

Status: Completed

Conditions: Moral Injury; Distress, Emotional

Treatments: Other: Educational moral injury video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05001542

21-066

CPCA-0592 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Stress, anxiety, distress and depression are exceptionally high among healthcare workers at the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic. Factors underlying distress and resilience are unknown and there are no evidence based interventions to impact the mental wellbeing of frontline healthcare workers. This study will evaluate a novel virtual reality platform to gather the "distress experience" of frontline healthcare workers at Unity Health Toronto in real time during the ongoing COVID pandemic by developing and showing feasibility of digital technology (Virtual Reality (VR) and mobile app) as a digital platform to understand the causes and ultimately reduce the moral distress of healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will develop innovations which can be used for future pandemics and other contexts prone to producing moral distress and injury.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Staff or healthcare providers working at Unity Health Toronto
• 18 years of age or older
• Must own a mobile phone running Android Version 6.0 and higher, or an iPhone 6 running OS 14 and higher)

Exclusion Criterion:

• Non-Unity Health Toronto staff

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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15 participants in 1 patient group

Experimental Arm

Experimental group

Description:

VR simulation exercise with a digital follow-up component to help assess the physiological and psychological indicators of moral distress

Treatment:

Other: Educational moral injury video