Virtual Reality as a Self-Efficacy Intervention

Psychological Clinical Trial

Official title: Improving Self-Efficacy of Hospitalized Children With Virtual Reality Education: A Pragmatic, Crossover Trial

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal is to explore the use of Virtual Reality (VR) as an intervention to increase self-efficacy in a healthcare setting. The investigators would like to determine if an educational VR intervention in the course of healthcare could increase pediatric patient self-efficacy compared to standard of care (i.e no VR).

Clinical Trial Description

While virtual reality has gained momentum as a therapeutic supplement to distract from pain perception and to reduce anxiety, it has received less attention as an intervention to promote more holistic psychological self-efficacy in the course of in-patient care. Child and adolescent self-reported measures of self-efficacy have also been looked over in favor of parent or practitioner measures of a child's self-efficacy.

To evaluate the effectiveness of virtual reality on child and adolescent self-efficacy while undergoing hospital care, the investigators will determine the effect of virtual reality to 1) increase pediatric patient self-efficacy compared to standard of care using educational virtual reality, 2) establish a comprehensive profile of short-term psychological well-being in school-aged children and adolescents following admission to a hospital. Participants will serve as their own control to either receive intervention on the first day or second day of the in-patient care and no intervention will be given on the other day. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Psychological

• NCT number: NCT05725395
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Stanford University
• Contact: Thomas J Caruso, MD, MEd
• Phone: 650-723-5728
• Email: tjcaruso@stanford.edu
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 20, 2023
• Completion date: September 30, 2024