Caregivers Training Using Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality

NCT05885334 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: TED2021-130383B-I00
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 168
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

What the investigators propose. The use of disruptive digital technologies for their potential to improve caregivers training, ensure the adequacy of care and achieve a greater quality of life for recipients; increase the efficiency of interventions to support caregivers, quickly reaching a greater number of people; democratize access to adequate care; dignify the lives of people working in this sector, mostly women; develop a new sector of the economy by promoting the modernization and technification of the sector. The project seeks to place people at the center of interventions while respecting their digital rights. The investigators identify as disruptive technologies those based on recent innovations (such as virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence AI) with a high capacity to evolve rapidly, adapting to very different needs and sectors, and a high capacity to generate new business models. These emerging technologies open up new opportunities to improve the well-being of dependent people, provide new skills (including soft ones) to caregivers and would be also useful against gender stereotypes in the caregiving sector.

Conditions

Medication Errors and Other Product Use Errors and Issues; Caring

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in number of caring errors and medication errors

  The evaluation of the effectiveness of each of the arms will be measured, among other ways, by recording two attempts to execute the care situation to be trained in the intervention.

  6 months

Study Arms (3)

Naturalistic Intervention

PLACEBO COMPARATOR

Natural intervention (actual provision of information and answering of questions). This arm will evaluate the natural learning during the action.

Other: Control

Virtual Reality

EXPERIMENTAL

Virtual Reality intervention specifically designed for this study. Using VR to learn procedures will encourage caregivers to learn in a fully immersive and participatory environment where they will have to interact with the virtual content, enhancing their learning experience.

Other: Virtual Reality

Augmented Reality

EXPERIMENTAL

Augmented Reality Intervention specifically designed for this study. This intervention will increase participants' skills through active learning as they interact with real-world care situations while receiving simultaneous support from AR devices.

Other: Augmented Reality

Interventions

Control OTHER

Caregivers will not receive any educational solution different than what is done by routine in centers. After six months, performance in caregivers tasks will be video recorded.

Naturalistic Intervention

Virtual Reality OTHER

Caregivers will receive a educational solution of virtual reality videos with care situations simulations for 1h. After six months, performance in caregivers tasks will be video recorded.

Virtual Reality

Augmented Reality OTHER

Caregivers will receive a educational solution of augmented reality videos with care situations simulations for 1h. After six months, performance in caregivers tasks will be video recorded.

Augmented Reality

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Qualified or unqualified carers caring for multi-pathological patients (coexistence of two or more chronic conditions lasting one year or more, requiring continuous medical assistance or limiting daily activities), polymedicated (simultaneous daily treatment of 5 or more drugs) and Barthel equal or lower than 55.
• Carers who are in charge of this person for at least 6 months of the year.
• Residence in C. Valenciana, Andalusia, R. de Murcia, C. Madrid and Catalonia (in the home of the patient or relative).
• Qualified or unqualified caregivers in charge of patients with a fixed catheter who require care from another person.
• Carers who are in charge of that person for at least 6 months of the year.
• Residence in C. Valenciana, Andalucía, R. de Murcia, C. Madrid and Cataluña (in the patient's or relative's home).

You may not qualify if:

• Caregivers of patients who had filed a patrimonial claim in the last 5 years.
• Carers of part-time residents in nursing homes.
• Carers with a health profession.
• Carers with experience in using VR or AR for a similar purpose.
• Carers over 90 years of age.
• Carers with more than two dependents.
• Carers with problems of vertigo, tinnitus, motion sickness, epilepsy, seizures or similar symptoms, severe cardiac conditions or wearing a cardiac pacemaker or hearing aid.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica de la Comunitat Valenciana: lead

Study Sites (1)

Fundación Fisabio

Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante, 03110, Spain

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Ballester P, Gil-Hernandez E, Perez-Esteve C, Guilabert M, Carrillo I, Arroyo A, Cobos A, Mira JJ. Medication incidents and informal caregiver burden: A cross-sectional study. J Healthc Qual Res. 2025 Dec 24;41(2):101175. doi: 10.1016/j.jhqr.2025.101175. Online ahead of print.

  PMID: 41447744 DERIVED

• Mira JJ, Ballester P, Gil-Hernandez E, Sambrano Valeriano L, Alvarez Gomez E, Olier Garate C, Marquez Ruiz A, Acedo Torrecilla M, Arroyo Rodriguez A, Hidalgo Galache E, Navas Gutierrez P, Perez-Jover V, Lorenzo Martinez S, Carrillo Murcia I, Fernandez Peris C, Sanchez-Garcia A, Vicente Ripoll MA, Cobos Vargas A, Perez-Perez P, Guilabert Mora M. Safe Care and Medication Intake Provided by Caregivers at Home: Reality Care Study Protocol. Healthcare (Basel). 2023 Aug 3;11(15):2190. doi: 10.3390/healthcare11152190.

  PMID: 37570430 DERIVED

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 31, 2023
• First Posted: June 1, 2023
• Study Start: January 15, 2024
• Primary Completion: May 31, 2025
• Study Completion: July 9, 2025
• Last Updated: September 10, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-09

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

ES (1)