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

NCT05436132 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: KMUHIRB- F(I)-20200098
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 173
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Virtual Reality; Augmented Reality; Oral Care Performance

Keywords

Virtual reality; Augmented reality; Oral Care Performance; home care worker; elderly

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• oral care behavior

  Eight statements were used to evaluate the behavior in assisting in oral care behavior Item including that" I take the initiative to assist the elderly to perform oral care ." All response was coded as zero (not) or one (yes).

  Change from 3-month follow-up to 6-month follow-up. After two groups HCWs received the intervention, 3 months and 6 months HCWs would received follow-up questionnaire to finish the measurement.

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Oral care-related knowledge

  After randomization, HCWs would receive pre-test before intervention and post-test after intervention immediately. The follow-up questionnaire to measure at 3 months and 6 months after intervention.

• Attitude toward oral care

  After randomization, HCWs would receive pre-test before intervention and post-test after intervention immediately. The follow-up questionnaire to measure at 3 months and 6 months after intervention.

• Self-efficacy of oral care

  After randomization, HCWs would receive pre-test before intervention and post-test after intervention immediately. The follow-up questionnaire to measure at 3 months and 6 months after intervention.

• Intention to assist in oral care behavior

  After randomization, HCWs would receive pre-test before intervention and post-test after intervention immediately.

Study Arms (2)

VR/AR group

EXPERIMENTAL

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.

Behavioral: VR and AR oral healthcare curriculum training

Control group

PLACEBO COMPARATOR

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

Behavioral: traditional teaching methods oral healthcare curriculum

Interventions

VR and AR oral healthcare curriculum training BEHAVIORAL

HCWs in the VR/AR group received 2.5 hours VR and AR oral healthcare curriculum training. VR oral care training system was training the standard oral healthcare procedure for different physical and oral conditions in elderly people.AR oral care training system was training for the manual Bass brushing technique.

VR/AR group

traditional teaching methods oral healthcare curriculum BEHAVIORAL

HCWs in the control group received 2.5 hours traditional teaching methods of oral healthcare curriculum training.

Control group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• certificated home care workers in Taiwan.

You may not qualify if:

• aged above 65 were excluded.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital: lead

Study Sites (1)

Kaohsiung Medical University

Kaohsiung City, Sanmin Dist, 80708, Taiwan

Location

Study Officials

• Hsiao-Ling Huang

  Kaohsiung Medical University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

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: June 21, 2022
• First Posted: June 28, 2022
• Study Start: October 13, 2021
• Primary Completion: December 30, 2022
• Study Completion: December 30, 2022
• Last Updated: October 4, 2023

Record last verified: 2022-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TW (1)