Virtual Reality Glasses in Palliative Care

Necmettin Erbakan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Virtual Reality

Treatments: Other: virtual reality glasses

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06156540

TUSEB

Details and patient eligibility

About

Developments in medicine and technology have led to an increase in life expectancy and an increase in the need for palliative care. palliative Care aims to reduce or eliminate a life-threatening situation. The palliative care team cares for the patient and provides informal support to the patient. It should provide care that centers on caregivers (patient's relatives). Relatives of patients who provide palliative care are responsible for their care As it increases, problems such as fatigue, hopelessness and anger may occur. Problems experienced by caregivers of patients Eliminating this problem and integrating it into care by providing psychosocial support is essential for the quality of care. caregivers Health technologies can be used to support In our research, we found that virtual reality glasses were used in palliative care clinics. It is aimed to investigate the effect of patient relatives who care for inpatients on the psychological well-being and care burden. A randomized controlled research design was used in the study. The population of the research is a country in Turkey between June and October 2023. The study consisted of patient relatives who provide care to patients in the palliative care clinic of the public hospital in the province. To research Relatives of patients who met the participation criteria and agreed to participate (control group, n=22; experimental group, n=22) constituted the sample. Data were collected from "Caregiver Introduction Form", "Psychological Well-Being Scale", "Caregiving Burden Scale" and "Virtual Reality Glasses". It was collected using the "Satisfaction Form". Before starting the research, a preliminary study was conducted with four patient relatives. of research In the implementation, firstly the preliminary application of the data collection tools was made. Then, the experimental group was given weekly Videos containing 360-degree images were watched using virtual reality glasses for 30 minutes for three days. In the control group No intervention was made. At the end of the research, the final application of the data collection tools was made. From research The data obtained was analyzed with the SPSS 22.0 package program.

Enrollment: 44 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteering to participate in the research,
• No vision, hearing or perception impairment that prevents communication,
• Not using glasses to wear VR glasses,
• No psychiatric disease,
• Absence of complaints such as migraine, vertigo, active nausea, vomiting, headache,
• Not having someone to help you care for your patient.

Exclusion criteria

• Wanting to leave the research.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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44 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention was made to the control group. The posttest was administered four weeks after the pretest.As a result, caregivers' care burden and psychological well-being will be measured.

Virtual Reality Group

Experimental group

Description:

A pretest was administered to the experimental group. Then, 360-degree VR videos (nature walks, trips, etc.) were watched three days a week for four weeks. Then, the final test was administered.As a result, caregivers' care burden and psychological well-being will be measured.

Treatment:

Other: virtual reality glasses