Virtual Reality and Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Qassim University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Children; Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia; Virtual Reality

Treatments: Other: Traditional physical therapy program; Other: Virtual reality-based exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05612503

RHPT/2021/0074

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study has been designed to investigate the effect of 12 weeks of using virtual reality based exercises on pulmonary functions, exercise capacity, functional performance, and quality of life in children with surgically-repaired congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

Full description

Children with CDH have significant disruptions in their quality of life (QoL) due to their poor health, in this randomized controlled clinical trial, one important aspect of virtual reality is the interactivity of children and their interests in choosing the exercised game. Each child in two groups perform a specific virtual reality based respiratory exercises for 3 months.

Enrollment: 52 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 10 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age between 6 and 10 years.
• BMI was between 20 and 24 kg/m2.
• surgically-repaired congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
• respiratory distress symptoms.
• under follow-up care in pediatric and physical therapy clinic.

Exclusion criteria

• Children were excluded if they have growth abnormality.
• neuromotor disorders.
• children with cardiac problems.
• unable to do understand all procedures.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

Traditional physical therapy program

Sham Comparator group

Description:

For 15 minutes, each child in both groups perform the following specific respiratory exercises: resistance-based diaphragm strengthening exercises, breathing exercises.

Treatment:

Other: Traditional physical therapy program

Virtual reality-based exercises

Experimental group

Description:

Following a session of traditional physical therapy, the children in study group toke 30 minutes rest then they joined in a 30-minute VR exercise session using Nintendo Wii systems.

Treatment:

Other: Traditional physical therapy program

Other: Virtual reality-based exercises