Virtual Reality for Pediatric Palliative Care Team

NCT06247618 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: ppcVirtualReality
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 27
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Is virtual reality a useful and usable tool to improve the psychological well-being of PPC operators? study primary obtv: assessment of occupational psychological well-being (divided into stress, depression, anxiety and risk of burnout) in the population of health professionals working in pediatric palliative care; verify if the virtual reality tool leads to an improvement change at the level of the investigated items (feasibility study). The treatment will have a duration of 4 weeks, with the execution of two sessions per week with the use of a viewer positioned on the head that allows users to navigate and interact in real time with a three-dimensional (3D) environment At time zero (T0), the participants will be administered, shortly before the application of virtual reality, the Mini-Z survey 2.0 questionnaires (the single item burnout question), Depression Anxiety Stress Scales 21 (DASS-21), and a demographic questionnaire (gender, age, profession, shift work, years of work in PPCs). At the end of the compilation, two vision treatments will follow, which will take place three to four days apart. At time T1 (second week) and time T2 (third week) the DASS-21 will initially be administered followed by two weekly treatments with a visor. At the end (T3) the compilation of both tests (Mini-Z survey 2.0-the single item burnout question and the DASS-21) will be repeated following the last two applications of the viewer.

Conditions

Occupational Stress

Keywords

virtual reality; pediatric palliative care; anxiety; burnout

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• the psychological well-being of healthcare providers: risk of burnout

  \- Mini-Z Survey 2.0 (single-item): examines the risk of burnout among healthcare provides, particularly The Mini-Z responds to the goal of framing/identifying the burnout risk of workers on the pediatric palliative care team. , it was analysed frequencies and percentages of burnout risk based on the analysis criteria identifiable in Nagasaki et al. 2022 (1- "In Total burnout"; 2-"Always has burnout symptoms the burnout symptoms I perceive are persistent"; 3-"Beginning of burnout"; 4-"Under stress"; 5-"Never felt in Burnout").

  Data collection lasted for four weeks

• the psychological well-being of healthcare providers: anxiety, depression and stress

  \- DASS-21(the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales 21) DASS-21 is a psychometric self-assessment test, derived from the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales \[22\], detecting three constructs: anxiety, depression and stress. It is measured by 21 items on a 4-point Likert scale (from "0-Not at all applies to me" to "3-It applies a lot or most of the time to me"). Cronbach's alpha of .80 is very good evidence of the high reliability of the tool's content.

  Data collection lasted for four weeks

Study Arms (1)

Virtual reality

EXPERIMENTAL

Device: visor

Interventions

visor DEVICE

The treatment will have a duration of 4 weeks, with the execution of two sessions per week with the use of a viewer positioned on the head that allows users to navigate and interact in real time with a three-dimensional (3D) environment

Virtual reality

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• work within the pediatric hospice of Padua
• Absence of neurological pathologies
• personnel who actively engage in membership/participation during all 4 weeks of the project

You may not qualify if:

• Subject do not sign written consent

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova: lead

Study Sites (1)

Hospice Pediatrico- Azienda Ospedale Università Padova

Padua, PD, 35126, Italy

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Occupational Stress; Anxiety Disorders; Burnout, Psychological

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Occupational Diseases; Stress, Psychological; Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior; Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Zanin

  Azienda Ospedale-Università Padova

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: RN

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 7, 2023
• First Posted: February 8, 2024
• Study Start: September 7, 2023
• Primary Completion: October 10, 2023
• Study Completion: December 1, 2023
• Last Updated: February 8, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-01

Locations

IT (1)