Turkish Validity and Reliability Study of Virtual Reality Sickness Questionnaire

This study is planned for the cultural adaptation and validity of the "Virtual Reality Sickness Questionnaire".

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Sickness Behavior

Detailed Description

Virtual reality (SG) creates a virtual environment that reflects a real environment and offers various experiences to users. Motion sickness can be observed in people after using virtual reality applications or simulation devices in education. There are questionnaires in the literature such as "Simulator Sickness Questionnaire" and "Motion Sickness Questionnaire". However, these questionnaires are specific surveys to evaluate symptoms that develop after vehicle handling or use of simulation devices for pilot training, while they are not ideal questionnaires to evaluate symptoms that may develop after virtual reality applications. Because there are important differences between virtual reality systems and simulation systems in terms of the appearance of motion disturbance symptoms. For this reason, "Virtual Reality Sickness Questionnaire" has been developed that can evaluate these symptoms.

There is no Turkish version of the "Virtual Reality Sickness Questionnaire" in the literature. For this reason, this study is planned for the cultural adaptation and validity of the "Virtual Reality Sickness Questionnaire".

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 100

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: GÜL YAZICIOĞLU; Phone Number: +903123051577; Email: fsener@hacettepe.edu.tr

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Sıhhiye
    • Ankara, Sıhhiye, Turkey, 06100
      • Hatice Çetin

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 30 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

Healthy people

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Not having mental - cognitive problems,
• Being a volunteer

Exclusion Criteria:

• Oculomotor and vestibular disease
• Cardiovascular, neurological and gastrointestinal problems

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Virtual Reality Sickness Questionnaire	This questionnaire assess virtual reality sickness. This questionnaire consists of 2 subtitles as oculomotor and disorientation. It contains 9 symptoms in total. Each symptom is scored between 0 and 3 with the Likert type scoring system. Each subtitle adapted to be calculated by dividing the total score to a score system in itself like person receives%. The total score of the questionnaire will be obtained by averaging the total scores of the two subtitles.	Change from Baseline sickness after 1 hour later.
graybiel scale	This questionnaire assess virtual reality sickness. Total score ranges from 0-50. 0-2 points are interpreted as "light susceptibility to motion sickness", 3-7 points as "moderate susceptibility to motion sickness", 8-15 points as "extreme susceptibility to motion sickness", and values above 16 are "Definitive motion sickness".	Change from Baseline sickness after 1 hour later.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
international physical activity questionnaire	This questionnaire assess physical activity level. The physical activity levels are classified as (< 600 MET-min/week), which is the physically inactive level (level I); (600-3000 METmin/week), which is the level in medium-level (level II) and (> 3000 MET-min/week), which is the high physical activity level.	All of the participants will assess at baseline with this scale.
tampa kinesiophobia scale	This questionnaire assess kinesiophobia. The four-point Likert scoring is used in this scale (1 = I do not agree at all, 4 = I agree completely). The total score is calculated after reversing the items 4, 8, 12 and 16. Scoring ranges between 17 and 68 with the higher scores indicating higher levels of kinesiophobia perception.	All of the participants will assess at baseline with this scale.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hacettepe University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Kim HK, Park J, Choi Y, Choe M. Virtual reality sickness questionnaire (VRSQ): Motion sickness measurement index in a virtual reality environment. Appl Ergon. 2018 May;69:66-73. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2017.12.016. Epub 2018 Jan 16.

Helpful Links

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Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 30, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 30, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): March 30, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 20, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 20, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): July 23, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 18, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 13, 2023
• Last Verified: April 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: sickness; validity; virtual reality; reliability; turkish
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Illness Behavior
• Other Study ID Numbers: VRSQ9

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No