VR Embodiment for Stress Evaluation in a Return to Work Simulation (VRSTEVAR)

Clinique Saint-Jean, Bruxelles

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Burnout; Virtual Reality; Stress

Treatments: Other: Embodiment; Other: Observation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05379764

VRSTEVAR01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Comparing the emotional effect of two different versions of one VR experience. The VR experience will simulate a typical return to work situation after an absence due to burnout.

The difference of the VR scenario is the point of view. In the first version, the 'standard' version, the user is looking at the VR experience from a neutral point of view, as if s/he was watching a 2D screen. In the second version, the 'embodiment' version, a VR features is added to have the user feeling incarnated in a digital human. This will enhance the feeling of being present in the virtual world and will enhance the emotional answer. The measured endpoint will be the evoked emotions, in particular stress.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• working in the office building where the study will be conducted

Exclusion criteria

• neurologic disorder precluding the use of VR goggles (epilepsy, ...),
• facial wounds precluding the use of VR goggles.
• a preliminary test evaluating the stress level will be conducted, DASS -21: stress levels above moderate is an exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Embodiment group

Experimental group

Description:

This group this group will view the VR scenario being 'embodied' in the avatar who is experiencing the VR scenario. This implies first persons perspective, agency over the avatar, multi-sensorial integration and co-location.

Treatment:

Other: Embodiment

observation group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

This group will view the VR scenario from a third persons perspective , as an observer.

Treatment:

Other: Observation