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The purpose of this study is to develop and explore the effects of virtual reality based natural environment intervention programs on improving attention, emotion, and cognitive function of older people. The study has three stage. The first stage is to develop and verify the effects of virtual natural environment on attention recovery and emotional recovery of institutional elders. The second stage is to evaluate the attention recovery and emotional effects of different types of virtual natural environments on institutional elders. The third stage is to test effects of the virtual natural environment intervention program improved attention, cognitive function, anxiety and depression in the institutionalized elders compared with the control group.


Clinical Trial Description

This study is a third-stage project. The first stage is to explore the difference between real and virtual reality natural environment experiences on improving attention and emotion of elders. The one hundred and twenty participants will be randomly assigned to the experimental group (A group with actual experience of natural or B group with virtual reality experience of natural) and control group (actual experience of city). Outcome measures will include attention restoration, emotion, physiological measures, and virtual reality experience. The second stage is to explore the difference between tree element virtual natural environment and tree and water element virtual natural environment experiences on improving attention and emotion of older people. Participants will be randomly assigned to the experimental group (tree element group or tree and water element group) and control group (no intervention). Outcome measures will include attention restoration, emotion, physiological measures, and virtual reality experience. The third stage is to test effects of virtual reality natural environment intervention program on improving attention, cognitive function, anxiety and depression in institutional elderly. Eighty participants will be randomly assigned to the experimental group and control group. The intervention group will last for 8 weeks. Outcome measures will include attention, cognitive function, anxiety and depression, physiological measures, virtual reality e experience, sleep quality and activities of daily living. Contribution: This study aims to understand the effects of virtual natural environment intervention on the psychological symptoms and cognitive function of the elderly. ;


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NCT number NCT05803460
Study type Interventional
Source National Yang Ming University
Contact Cheng-Chen Chou, Ph.D
Phone +886 2 28267000
Email chou8278@gmail.com
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date April 7, 2023
Completion date July 31, 2025

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