An interventional study of 360 Video on a Virtual Reality Headset and 360-Control Video in Implicit Bias and Implicit Association Test, sponsored by Brigham and Women's Hospital. Enrolling by invitation at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-12-16.
Sponsored by Brigham and Women's Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
The goal of this pilot implementation study is to evaluate the impact of a virtual reality (VR) intervention on implicit bias for resident physicians. The main question it aims to answer are:
Does watching VR experience of two clinical encounters reduce implicit bias association test scores? Is the VR experience an acceptable intervention tool for reducing implicit bias?
Researchers will compare weight-based VR experiences consisting of two observed clinical encounters to a neutral education VR encounter to see if our intervention significantly impacts implicit bias association scores.
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Inclusion Criteria:
Behavioral: 360 Video on a Virtual Reality Headset
Behavioral: 360-Control Video
Two 360- videos watched via a VR headset where the study subject will witness a positive physician encounter with a compliant obese patient and a negative encounter with a non-compliant non-obese patient
A neutral education video from the New England Journal of Medicine watched in a 360-theatre setting via a VR headset
Implicit Association Test
Participants in both experimental and control arms will take four implicit association tests: one pre-VR to assess baseline, immediately post-VR, one-week, and one-month. Impact of VR experimental experience will be assessed for significant changes in IAT scores between the pre-VR test and the post-VR tests.
Time frame: From enrollment to one-month post-intervention
Resident Impression of Virtual Reality Implicit Bias Project
The acceptability of the use of virtual reality for implicit bias studies will be surveyed
Time frame: One-month post-VR
Plan to share: Undecided — IPD may not be shared since IAT scores of residents may be considered private information that a resident physician may not want shared.
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