Virtual Reality to Combat Weight-Based Implicit Bias: BWH Pilot Study (BWH-VR-1)
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The goal of this pilot implementation study is to evaluate the impact of a virtual reality (VR) intervention on implicit bias for resident physicians. The main question it aims to answer are:
Does watching VR experience of two clinical encounters reduce implicit bias association test scores? Is the VR experience an acceptable intervention tool for reducing implicit bias?
Researchers will compare weight-based VR experiences consisting of two observed clinical encounters to a neutral education VR encounter to see if our intervention significantly impacts implicit bias association scores.
Participants will be asked
- Complete Implicit Association test for weight-based bias pre-intervention and post-intervention (immediately, at one week, and one month after the intervention) to assess their implicit bias
- Watch either experimental clinical encounter videos or neutral education video using a VR headset
- Participants will also complete an abbreviated IAT related to views on compliance
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- Resident physicians associated with Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Resident physicians providing informed consent to participate
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52 participants in 2 patient groups
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