Quality of Life Variations Among Adolescent Females Following Virtual Reality Games Approach

Mina Atef Georgui Elias

Status: Completed

Conditions: Menstrual Pain; Depression, Anxiety; Obesity; Body Fat Composition; Obesity and Obesity-related Medical Conditions; Adolescent Obesity

Treatments: Other: Diet Advice; Other: Virtual reality exercise; Other: Aerobic exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06604429

IRB00014233-7 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

to compare the effects of virtual reality games, aerobic exercise, and dietary modifications on Quality of Life among adolescent females.

Full description

The study will assess whether virtual reality games, aerobic exercise, and dietary modifications lead to significant differences in Quality of Life scores, and perceived exertion as measured by the Borg scale. Additionally, the study will evaluate whether these interventions produce varying impacts on psychological factors such as depression, anxiety, and stress, and on physical measurements like waist circumference (WC) and body fat composition.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 12 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Obese adolescent girls
• Class I Obesity (Body Mass Index from 30 to 34.99 kg/m2)
• Have regular menstruation
• Clinically and medically stable
• no impairment of sensation or other neurological or psychological problems

Exclusion criteria

• Visual and/or auditory defects
• Normal weight girls (Body Mass Index from 18 to 24.99 kg/m2) or below average weight (BMI less than 18 kg/m2) or Class II & III Obesity (BMI above 35 kg/m2)
• Girls with significant tightness and/or fixed deformity of lower limbs
• Participants with neurological disorders that affect balance or mentality (e.g. epilepsy).
• Girls with advanced radiographic changes include: Bone destruction, Bony ankylosis, Knee joint subluxation, and Epiphysial fracture)
• Congenital or acquired lower limb deformities in the lower limbs.
• Cardiopulmonary dysfunction.
• Girls under insulin therapy, uncontrolled bronchial asthma, anemia, and Pathological causes of obesity (endocrinal, genetic syndromes...etc.).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Virtual Reality Exercise

Experimental group

Description:

The group included 50 girls who received diet advice, aerobic and virtual reality exercises 3 times per week for 8 weeks. they received diet advice and aerobic exercises in form of cycle ergometer training (Each girl started session with a 5 min of warm-up. The exercise phase is performed at 65-75% of age-predicted peak heart rate using an orbitrack device for 20 minutes). Then This was followed by the main part, which consisted of 25 min of exercise when girl immersed in the game and did physical activities for the upper and lower extremities according to the game's requirements, and finally a 5 min cool-down part to lower the heart rate and end the session with static flexibility routines, the total session that would be applied about 50 min (including 30 mins of Virtual reality exercises)

Treatment:

Other: Aerobic exercise

Other: Virtual reality exercise

Other: Diet Advice

Control group (aerobic exercise)

Active Comparator group

Description:

This group serves as the control group, it included 50 girls who received diet advice and aerobic exercises in form of cycle ergometer training for 3 times per week for 8 weeks. Each girl started session with a 5 min of warm-up. The exercise phase is performed at 65-75% of age-predicted peak heart rate using an orbitrack device for 20 minutes. Finally, a 5 min cool-down period is permitted, the total session that would be applied about 30 min.

Treatment:

Other: Aerobic exercise

Other: Diet Advice