Effects of Game-based Virtual Reality Intervention on Senior Fitness, Fall Prevention and Balance Function Among Older Adults

Taipei Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Balance

Treatments: Behavioral: Conventional health education; Behavioral: Game-based virtual reality (Game)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05779189

N202204048

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness between game-based virtual reality intervention and conventional health education in improving older adults' balance knowledge, and let them know how to prevent falling. The intervention group will receive virtual reality games in person and read the health education flier, while the control group was assigned to read the health education flier and follow suit the video of balance exercise.

Full description

Falls can lead to disability, sickbed and even death of the elderly, and it ranks second among the top ten which causes death in Taiwan. In the past, when multifaceted exercise interventions were conducted for the elderly, most of them focused on group strength training and aerobic exercise, but lacked individualized balance training, resulting in a low degree of cooperation.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elderly people over the age of 65-99.

Exclusion criteria

• cognitive impairment
• neurological diseases
• severe osteoporosis
• lower limb joint surgery
• discomfort symptoms during exercise

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive conventional health education and game-based virtual reality (game) in person.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Game-based virtual reality (Game)

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will receive conventional health education and 4 video of balance exercise.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Conventional health education