VR/AR Educational Module on Oral Care Practices for Home Care Worker

Kaohsiung Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Augmented Reality; Oral Care Performance; Virtual Reality

Treatments: Behavioral: traditional teaching methods oral healthcare curriculum; Behavioral: VR and AR oral healthcare curriculum training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05436132

KMUHIRB- F(I)-20200098

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is to evaluate the effect of the elderly oral care knowledge, attitude ,self-efficacy ,oral care behavior between the home care workers(HCW) in VR(Virtual reality)/AR(Augmented reality)group and control group after intervention. Home care workers will be randomly assigned to the VR/AR group and the control group. Home care workers in the VR/AR group will use VR to learned about the oral care methods and processes in the different case. AR allows HCWs to actually operate cleaning teeth. The home care workers in the control group used traditional teaching methods for oral care. Baseline and follow-up survey were used to collect the data in oral care knowledge, attitude ,self-efficacy ,oral care behavior.

Full description

A randomized experimental design was used. Home care workers (HCWs) in the VR/AR group received 2.5 hours of VR(Virtual reality) and AR(Augmented reality) training. VR offered learners the standard oral care procedures under different physical and oral health conditions in elderly people and AR simulation training for the manual Bass brushing technique. The home care workers in the control group used traditional teaching methods for oral care. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data regarding oral care-related knowledge, attitude, self-efficacy, intention to assist in oral care behavior and behavior before and after the intervention, 3-month follow-up and 6-month follow-up. All participants finished the self-administered questionnaire within 10-15 minutes and handed it to researchers at VR/AR oral care training center in Kaohsiung Medical University.Generalized estimating equations (GEEs) was used to analyze the differences between pre-test, post-test and follow-ups.

Enrollment: 173 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• certificated home care workers in Taiwan.

Exclusion criteria

• aged above 65 were excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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173 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

VR/AR group

Experimental group

Description:

Home care workers (HCW)HCWs in the VR/AR group received 2.5 hours of VR and AR training. VR offered learners the standard oral care procedures under different physical and oral health conditions in elderly people and AR simulation training for the manual Bass brushing technique.

Treatment:

Behavioral: VR and AR oral healthcare curriculum training

Control group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

The home care workers in the control group received 2.5 hours of traditional teaching methods for oral care.

Treatment:

Behavioral: traditional teaching methods oral healthcare curriculum