An interventional study of VR interactive games in Virtual Reality, sponsored by Taipei Medical University. Completed at 1 site in Taiwan. Open to participants aged 65 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-08-06.
Sponsored by Taipei Medical University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the effectiveness of the incorporating VR interactive games into exercise courses of the elderly in the community.The main questions It aims to answer are: can It improve their balance ability and the quality of life.
Participants will receive a Twelve-week intervention of 36 sessions using VR interactive games in their exercise prescription, While the control group will follow the original iInstructor-led exercise intervention as the course content.
Both groups will undergo three sessions per week, one hour per session, for a total of 12 weeks and 36 sessions of intervention. Before and after competing all sessions, the effectiveness of this intervention will be assessed.
Some physical assessments will be done by all participants such as 2-minute step, right chair sit and reach, left chair sit and reach to compare if any difference between two groups. and participants will do a questionaire to evaluate the psychological and environmental quality of life.
Taipei Medical University is the lead sponsor of 245 studies on the registry; 56 are open to participants now.
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The experimental group received a twelve-week intervention of 36 sessions using VR interactive games in their exercise prescription
Device: VR interactive games
control group followed the original instructor-led exercise intervention as the course content.
The experimental group received a twelve-week intervention of 36 sessions using VR interactive games in their exercise prescription,
Balance ability
The scores of five physical assessments
Time frame: Physical assessment done 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after 12 weeks courses
Life quality
The score of questionnaire done by all participants
Time frame: Questionnaire done 2 weeks before and 2 weeks after 12 weeks courses
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Plan to share: Yes — the datasets generated in this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Supporting information: Study protocol, Sap, Icf, Csr, Analytic code
This study is completed, as verified in Jun 2023. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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