Music, Virtual Reality for Patients in IUGM

NCT06296199 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2024-2064
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 40
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Promoting good care, well-being and quality of life for geriatric patients is a long-standing initiative in Quebec, and one in which the Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM) has always been a leader. For example, the IUGM played a major role in drafting the reference framework for the AAPA (approach adapted to the needs of the elderly), which was introduced by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux in 2011. The investigator propose to continue this work by focusing in this project on the development of a new intervention aimed at the well-being and quality of life of geriatric patients and based on music and VR. Thee investigator hypothesize (1) that a VR headset-based intervention based on listening to and observing a concert of musicians playing classical music is feasible for patients hospitalized at the IUGM's URFI and in patients attending the geriatric outpatient clinic, and (2) that this intervention can improve their mental health - i.e. their positive emotions, well-being and quality of life - and reduce their anxiety.

Conditions

Aging; Disorder, Neurologic

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Feasability

  To determine if investigator is able to recruit 80 patients in 6 months, with a consent rate of 80% or more and less than 20% of withdrawal

  6 months

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Emotions variation

  1 day

• Affect variation

  1 day

• Well-Being Variation

  1 day

• Quality of life variation

  1 day

• Anxiety variation

  1 day

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

participants will listen to and watch a concert of musicians playing classical music through a VR headset

Other: VR

Control

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

participants will simply listen to the concert through headphones

Other: Music only

Interventions

VR OTHER

The participant will be seated comfortably in an armchair. The intervention will last 15 minutes. It will take place once. This group's intervention will be to watch and listen with VR headphones to a concert by a group of musicians playing music.

Intervention

Music only OTHER

The participant will be seated comfortably in an armchair. The intervention will last 15 minutes. It will take place once. This group's intervention will be to listen with conventional headphones to a concert by a group of musicians playing music.

Control

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 60 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• be hospitalized at the URFI of the IUGM, or being a patients attending the geriatric outpatient clinic
• be 60 years of age or older,
• not have an acute intercurrent pathology in the week preceding the procedure and during the two days of the procedure,
• have no psycho-behavioural disorders,
• no major neurocognitive disorder at a severe stage,
• no severe visual or hearing impairment,
• no vestibular balance disorders,
• give written consent to participate in the study.

You may not qualify if:

• Participate in another concurrent experimental clinical study, to avoid interference with our study.
• Do not understand written or spoken French or English. The participants are French and/or English speakers, and the questionnaires are only available in these 2 languages.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Centre integre universitaire de sante et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal: lead

Study Sites (1)

CRIUGM

Montreal, Quebec, H3W 1W5, Canada

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Nervous System Diseases

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER GOV
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: MD, PhD, director of AgeTeQ Lab at CRIUGM

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 22, 2024
• First Posted: March 6, 2024
• Study Start: May 1, 2024
• Primary Completion: October 23, 2024
• Study Completion: October 23, 2024
• Last Updated: February 11, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CA (1)