Virtual Reality for Pediatric Palliative Care Team

Occupational Stress Clinical Trial

— PPCVR  

Official title:

Virtual Reality as a Tool to Promote Healthcare Providers Wellbeing in Pediatric Palliative Care

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06247618
• Other study ID #: ppcVirtualReality
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 7, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: January 2024
• Source: Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 27
• Est. completion date: December 1, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: October 10, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 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

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subject do not sign written consent

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Occupational Stress

Intervention

Device:
• visor
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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	Hospice Pediatrico- Azienda Ospedale Università Padova	Padova	PD

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	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
Primary	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