VR for Symptom Control and Wellbeing

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hematologic Malignancy; Oncology; End Stage Cancer; Palliative Care

Treatments: Device: Virtual Reality Headset to provide a Virtual Reality Experience

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04821466

2021.RCHT.07

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate the effect that a Virtual Reality experience can have on patient symptoms and wellbeing for palliative care and oncology inpatients

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

• > 18 years of age
• Inpatient at RCHT know to the palliative care team
• Able to consent
• Able to speak and understand the English language
• Able to use the virtual reality system
• Able to complete ESAS-r Questionnaire

Exclusion criteria

• <18 years of age
• Patient unable to consent
• Patient unable to speak English
• Unable to use the virtual reality system (e.g. visually impaired)
• Known Epilepsy or seizures or suspected predisposition to seizures (e.g. Brain metastasis)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 1 patient group

Virtual Reality Headset

Experimental group

Description:

VR headset, programmed with a selection of 7 wellbeing programs to identify if use will improve participants wellbeing

Treatment:

Device: Virtual Reality Headset to provide a Virtual Reality Experience