Tolerance of an Immersive Virtual Reality Task Evaluating the Spatial Memory of Elderly Subjects

Healthy Participants Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Tolerance of an Immersive Virtual Reality Task Evaluating the Spatial Memory of Elderly Subjects and the Effects of Age, Gender and Level of Education on Performance

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05996250
• Other study ID #: 69HCL22_0203
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 25, 2023
• Est. completion date: May 28, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: June 2024
• Source: Hospices Civils de Lyon
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Spatial navigation is a high-level cognitive function allowing animals and humans to orient and move in space by constructing a mental representation of the environment. This function has been identified as one of the very first to be affected by Alzheimer's disease, including at the early stages, before the appearance of other mnesic disorders that the latter causes, such as those of episodic memory. However, the neuropsychological tests currently used in the diagnosis of cognitive disorders do not allow effective assessment of spatial memory impairment, in particular because it is impractical to offer spatial orientation tasks in a consulting room. In this context, virtual reality offers very interesting perspectives: it makes it possible to create controlled environments to assess spatial memory, without leaving the place of consultation.

Before being able to test its possible diagnostic efficacy, it is imperative to test the feasibility as well as the reliability of this type of task on an elderly population with no cognitive impairment. The data currently available on immersion tolerance in virtual reality mainly concern young people aged 18 to 35 and little data is available concerning the elderly or very old.

If this task correctly assesses spatial navigation abilities, this study should find the effects of age and sex usually observed.

The aim of this study is to assess the tolerance of an immersive virtual reality task evaluating the spatial memory of elderly subjects and the effects of age, gender and level of education on performance.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 84
• Est. completion date: May 28, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: May 28, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 60 Years to 85 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participant aged 60 to 85

• Participant affiliated or entitled to a social security scheme

• Recruited participants must have been informed and consented in writing

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participant with a diagnosis of cognitive impairment

• Severe, progressive or unstable pathology whose nature may interfere with the evaluation variables (epilepsy, psychiatric or psychotic disorders in the acute phase, visual hallucinations, acute infection, lack of sleep)

• Participant equipped with a pacemaker

• Burns or sores on the upper part of the face or on the scalp

• Consumption of toxic substances that can influence cognitive performance

• Deafness or blindness that may compromise participant assessment or completion of tasks and scales

• Participant under guardianship or curatorship or legal safeguard

• Participant refusing to use an immersive virtual reality tool

• Criterion for stopping the procedure under study: stopping the virtual reality task due to the participant's simulator sickness.

• Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) score less than 26

• MacNair Subjective Complaint Scale score greater than 16

• AGGIR score (Autonomy, Gerontology Group Iso Resources) less than 5

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Healthy Participants

Intervention

Other:
• Immersive virtual reality task
participants will have to wear a virtual reality headset connected to a remote control and will have to perform submersive virtual reality tasks

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Charpennes Geriatric Hospital, Lyon University Hospital	Villeurbanne

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hospices Civils de Lyon

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Sickness Simulator Questionnaire (SSQ) score	This is a questionnaire composed of 16 items covering the potential symptoms of intolerance to a virtual reality tool.; Each item is rated 0 (no symptom), 1 (mild symptom), 2 (moderate symptom) or 3 (severe symptom). The total score is obtained by multiplying the sum of the items by 3.74, and therefore varies from 0 to 180.	The sickness simulator scale is assessed immediately after the immersive virtual reality task.
Secondary	Time to complete the task in immersive virtual reality according to the age of the participants	Time to complete the task in immersive virtual reality (in seconds) according to the age of participants (in years)	through study completion, 1 year
Secondary	Time to complete the task in immersive virtual reality (in seconds) according to the gender of participants (male or female)	Time to complete the task in immersive virtual reality according to the gender of participants	through study completion, 1 year
Secondary	Time to complete the task in immersive virtual reality according to the number of years of study	Time to complete the task in immersive virtual reality (in seconds) according to the number of years of study (from entry into primary school)	through study completion, 1 year
Secondary	Raw score on the Wechsler Memory Scale-III (MEM III) Spatial Memory subtest	The test is designed for adults and the elderly to assess the performance of auditory memory, visual memory, memory immediate, delayed and visual working memory.The subtest used is the Spatial Memory subtest, it ranges from 0 to 28 (the higher the score, the better the performance).	through study completion, 1 year