Virtual Reality-enhanced Exercise and Education in Cardiac Rehabilitation

Thomas Jefferson University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Motivation; Satisfaction; Adherence, Patient

Treatments: Other: Virtual walking trails; Other: Standard of care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03945201

17P.652

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study incorporates a virtual reality (VR) simulated walking environment, with audio component of patient education, into the treadmill portion of outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR). The VR program was developed by Plas.MD and is named Bionautica Trails.

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants must independently choose or be referred to Jefferson Health Methodist Cardiac Rehabilitation Program for outpatient cardiac rehabilitation.
• Participants must have a referring cardiac condition requiring cardiac rehabilitation therapy.

Exclusion criteria

• Physical inability to use treadmill
• Medically unsafe to use a treadmill for 15 minutes
• Inability to understand English
• Unable to provide consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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72 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard of care

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants receive normal cardiac rehabilitation according to approved standard of care. They use multiple pieces of exercise equipment at each session for increasing amounts of time and at incrementally increasing levels of difficulty. After establishing a baseline, participants are allowed to use the treadmill for "up to 15 minutes" at each session.

Treatment:

Other: Standard of care

Virtual walking trails

Experimental group

Description:

Participants use multiple pieces of exercise equipment at each session for increasing amounts of time and at incrementally increasing levels of difficulty. After establishing a baseline, participants are allowed to use the treadmill for "up to 15 minutes" at each session. The treadmill is positioned in front of a vertically oriented high definition television screen showing Bionautica Trails, virtual walking trails created by Plas.md.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual walking trails