The Effects of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Training System on Elderly Oral Care Skill for Oral Hygiene and Nursing Students

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Medical Education

Treatments: Behavioral: VR-based training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05043909

KMUHIRB-SV(II)-20200071

Details and patient eligibility

About

Virtual reality (VR) has been proposed as a promising technology for education since the combination of immersive and interactive features enables experiential learning. The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of VR-based training on oral health care for dependency elderly among oral hygiene students.

Full description

A randomized controlled trial was conducted. Overall, the study recruited students from third grade of Department of Oral Hygiene students in Kaohsiung Medical University during 2021. The participants were randomly assigned to virtual-reality experimental (EG; n = 11) and control (CG; n = 12) groups. The students in EG received a 2-hour VR training for elderly oral health care at 2-week (Time 2), 4-week (Time 3) and 6-week (Time 4) follow-ups. Each student collected the data by a self-administrated questionnaire before and immediately after each of the intervention. Linear regression in generalized estimating equations (GEE) compare the differences between both groups.

Enrollment: 23 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 21 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• third grade of Department of Oral Hygiene students in Kaohsiung Medical University during the 2021 academic semester
• Participants have to take both the courses of 'Basic Medical Nursing Care' and 'Oral Health Care for Community People and Long-term Care Residents' before intervention.

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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23 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Group (EG)

Experimental group

Description:

The students in EG received VR-based training for elderly oral health care at 2-week (Time 2), 4-week (Time 3), and 6-week (Time 4) follow-ups. The learning module was divided into three sessions according to the physical condition (1) Mild disability, (2) Semi-disability, (3) Total disability and oral condition, (1) wearing dentures, (2) missing teeth of the elderly. Students simulate the different physical and oral conditions of the elderly through virtual situations and provide suitable oral care methods. The whole training session took approximately two hours for each student; First, students were first given a short introduction to the VR system's use (10 minutes). Second, they were able to carry out oral care for the elderly while wearing VR goggles and using hand-controllers with the teaching and audio guides during the process (90 minutes), and an evaluation was taken after the intervention (20 minutes).

Treatment:

Behavioral: VR-based training

Control Group (CG)

No Intervention group

Description:

The students in CG do not receive any of the interventions. However, the same VR-based curriculum of oral health care on dependency elderly were provided at the end of the study.