Improvement of Patient Experience and Healthcare Providers' Productivity Using Virtual Reality in the Field of Radiation Therapy

NCT04141943 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: 4-2019-0795
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 196
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of providing information about radiotherapy using virtual reality and to see whether it would improve the productivity of medical staff, improve patient experience and satisfaction, and reduce patient's anxiety prior to radiotherapy.

Conditions

Breast Cancer

Keywords

Breast cancer; radiotherapy; virtual reality

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS)

  Changes in APAIS Before and After Providing Virtual Reality or Printed Document Information \- APAIS: scale from 1 (not worried at all) to 5 (extremely worried, most anxious)

  Prior to receiving the radiotherapy information via VR or printed document

• Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS)

  Changes in APAIS Before and After Providing Virtual Reality or Printed Document Information \- APAIS: scale from 1 (not worried at all) to 5 (extremely worried, most anxious)

  5 minutes after receiving the radiotherapy information via VR or printed document

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

  Prior to receiving the radiotherapy information via VR or printed document

• State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)

  5 minutes after receiving the radiotherapy information via VR or printed document

Study Arms (2)

VR

EXPERIMENTAL

The patients who are allocated to the VR arm will receive information about radiotherapy via virtual reality

Other: Virtual reality

Printed document

NO INTERVENTION

The patients who are allocated to the Printed document arm will receive information about radiotherapy via printed document.

Interventions

Virtual reality OTHER

The patients who are allocated to the VR arm will receive information about radiotherapy via virtual reality.

VR

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 64 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Breast cancer patients who received curative surgery and are planned to receive radiotherapy
• Patients with cognitive abilities to receive virtual reality information
• Patients who are 20 years old or older

You may not qualify if:

• Patients who have vision or hearing problems to receive information
• Patients who do not agree to this study
• Pregnancy, Fetuses / Newborns, Minors, and Deficient Patients
• years old or older
• Patients who have been treated for dizziness within the last 6 months
• Patients who have experienced severe dizziness within the last 6 months when using electronic devices

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Yonsei University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Severance Hospital

Seoul, Korea, 120-752, South Korea

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Breast Neoplasms

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms; Breast Diseases; Skin Diseases; Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases

Central Study Contacts

Yong Bae Kim

CONTACT

+82-2228-8095; ybkim3@yuhs.ac

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 21, 2019
• First Posted: October 28, 2019
• Study Start: March 13, 2020
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2021
• Study Completion: October 1, 2021
• Last Updated: November 18, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

KR (1)