Effect of Virtual Reality in Patients With Long Covid-19

Istinye University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: COVID-19

Treatments: Other: Classical Treatment; Other: Virtual Reality Combined with Classical Treatment; Other: Control Group; Other: Virtual Reality

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06374446

22-172

Details and patient eligibility

About

SARS-CoV-2 was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in late 2019. It is a highly contagious virus that has been reported to occur in humans and is said to cause pneumonia.

Covid-19 infection is transmitted through droplets during coughing and sneezing and through contact with the mouth, nose or eyes after contaminated hands. The most obvious symptoms of Covid-19 symptoms include cough, dyspnea and fever. Covid-19, which can also be seen asymptomatic, is in intensive care it may be severe enough to require hospitalization, cause multiple organ failure and even death it could be. Musculoskeletal symptoms such as fatigue, myalgia, and arthralgia are common with Covid-19 are the symptoms. The first case in Turkey was reported on March 11, 2020.

Long-term Covid or Chronic Post Covid Syndrome are multi-system syndromes that last more than 12 weeks and physical, cognitive, psychological, social and occupational domains. The most commonly reported long covid symptoms are; fatigue, shortness of breath, cough, joint pain, chest pain.

Virtual reality application provides its users with content created using computer technology. In a virtual environment with a high perception of reality, the aim is to enable mirror neuron activation, enabling the individual to interact with virtual objects and events with three-dimensional movements and to create the perception of doing all these in the real world.

Virtual reality for training, treatment, rehabilitation, analysis and testing purposes in healthcare can be used. It is possible to use virtual reality for different purposes, for treatment and rehabilitation. With virtual reality applications in treatment and rehabilitation processes It was stated that patient motivation will increase and patient fear and anxiety will decrease.

No study was found in the literature investigating the effect of virtual reality application on fatigue, functional capacity and respiratory function in long-term Covid-19 patients. The purpose of this study; To investigate the effect of virtual reality application on fatigue, functional level and respiratory function in long-term Covid-19 patients.

Enrollment: 56 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being between the ages of 18 - 65
• Having been diagnosed with Covid-19
• At least 12 weeks have passed since the diagnosis of Covid-19 and the symptoms continue
• To be cooperative

Exclusion criteria

• Having been KOAH
• People with severe visual and cognitive impairment
• Having a neuromuscular disease
• Having a cardiac or pulmonary surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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56 participants in 4 patient groups

Classical Treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Upper and lower extremity exercises + breathing exercises

Treatment:

Other: Classical Treatment

Virtual Reality Combined with Classical Treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Upper and lower extremity exercises + breathing exercises+virtual reality

Treatment:

Other: Virtual Reality Combined with Classical Treatment

Virtual Reality Group

Experimental group

Description:

Virtual reality

Treatment:

Other: Virtual Reality

Control Group

Experimental group

Description:

A brochure with home program explaining the importance of exercise will be given

Treatment:

Other: Control Group