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- Clinical Trial NCT03002298
Virtual Reality in Individuals With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Motor Learning From Virtual to Natural Environments in Individuals With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Detailed Description
The Department of Electronic System Engineering of the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (Brazil) developed the software that superimposes virtual objects over images of real world, captured with a webcam.
The coincidence timing task could either have a virtual or a real interface. For the real interface, a keyboard was used. For the virtual interface, a webcam recorded a marker on the table alongside the keyboard of the computer. The images were fed into the computer and analyzed online. Using the custom-made software, it was determined whether or not the participant's hand occluded the marker, which was then fed back to the virtual environment. The coincidence timing task was based on the Bassin Anticipation Timer. To this end, 10 3D-cubes were displayed simultaneously in a vertical column on a monitor. The cubes were turned on (i.e., they changed from white to green) and off sequentially (from top to bottom) until the target cube (i.e., the tenth cube) was reached. The task for the participant was to either press the space bar on the keyboard (i.e., tangible button press task, by physical contact, represented on figure 1A and 1B) or to make a sideward hand gesture as if hitting the target object (i.e., the more abstract gesture task, with no physical contact, represented on the figure 1C and 1D), i.e., occluding the marker at the exact moment the target cube turned green.
Participants performed the task individually in a quiet room with only the examiner who gave the instructions present. The computer was placed on a table. The participants were seated in their wheelchair, which was adjusted according to the needs of the individual.
The examiner explained the task verbally and gave three demonstrations of how to perform the coincidence timing tasks. The participants were instructed to place the preferred hand (i.e., the less affected hand) on a mark aside to the target (The location was individually adjusted but ranged from 2 to 4 cm from the target). Once the first top cube turned on, the individual had to move his hand to either touch the target key on the keyboard or to make a hitting gesture in front of the webcam, exactly at the moment coinciding with the bottom target cube turning on. Different sounds were provided as feedback for either a hit or miss during acquisition, retention and transfer, the range of error being -200 to 200ms.
Participants with DMD and TD were divided into two subgroups randomly: (a) button-press task group (BPT) - in this group during the acquisition phase the participants should press the space button on keyboard to complete the coincidence timing task (more real interface) and (b) gesture task group (GT) - in this group during the acquisition phase the participants should cross a virtual target created by a webcam to complete the coincidence timing task instead of press the computer button (more virtual interface).
For all tasks (button-press and gesture), during the acquisition phase, all groups started performing 20 attempts of the coincidence timing task and, after five minutes with no contact with the task, they performed five more repetitions for the retention phase (both phases in slower speed - with the turning on and off of the lights in an interval of 400ms), finally they performed five repetitions for two different transfers phases: the first transfer was performed with a faster speed - 300ms of lights interval (transfer with speed increase - TSI). The second transfer was performed with change task (transfer with exchange of en vironment - TEE) between groups by doing 5 attempts transfer phase in another interface. It means, the group that has done the acquisition phase in button-press task performed the transfer on gesture task and vice versa.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- medical diagnosis of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy confirmed by molecular method and/or protein expression in skeletal muscle;
- signing of an informed consent form from the individual or person legally responsible.
Exclusion Criteria:
- presence of associated comorbidities;
- inability in comprehension of the task.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: DMD gesture task
Experimental group that made the task using a gesture in front of a webcam
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Timing coincident task in a virtual environment, using motor learning protocol in which a gesture in front of a webcam shoub be done to reach the task
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Experimental: DMD button-press task
Experimental group that made the task pressing the button
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Timing coincident task in a virtual environment, using motor learning protocol in which the task shoub be done by pressing a button on the keyboard
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Active Comparator: Control group gesture task
Control group that made the task using a gesture in front of a webcam
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Timing coincident task in a virtual environment, using motor learning protocol in which a gesture in front of a webcam shoub be done to reach the task
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Active Comparator: Control group button-press task
Control group that made the task pressing the button
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Timing coincident task in a virtual environment, using motor learning protocol in which the task shoub be done by pressing a button on the keyboard
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Motor Learning test by using a timing coincident task in virtual reality
Time Frame: 1 day
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1 day
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Carlos BM Monteiro, Ph.D., University of Sao Paulo
Study record dates
Study Major Dates
Study Start
Primary Completion (Actual)
Study Completion (Actual)
Study Registration Dates
First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
First Posted (Estimate)
Study Record Updates
Last Update Posted (Actual)
Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
Last Verified
More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 16796513.1.0000.0065
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
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