Virtual Reality for Pediatric Palliative Care Team (PPCVR)

Virtual Reality as a Tool to Promote Healthcare Providers Wellbeing in Pediatric Palliative Care

Is virtual reality a useful and usable tool to improve the psychological well-being of PPC operators? study primary obtv: assessment of occupational psychological well-being (divided into stress, depression, anxiety and risk of burnout) in the population of health professionals working in pediatric palliative care; verify if the virtual reality tool leads to an improvement change at the level of the investigated items (feasibility study). The treatment will have a duration of 4 weeks, with the execution of two sessions per week with the use of a viewer positioned on the head that allows users to navigate and interact in real time with a three-dimensional (3D) environment At time zero (T0), the participants will be administered, shortly before the application of virtual reality, the Mini-Z survey 2.0 questionnaires (the single item burnout question), Depression Anxiety Stress Scales 21 (DASS-21), and a demographic questionnaire (gender, age, profession, shift work, years of work in PPCs). At the end of the compilation, two vision treatments will follow, which will take place three to four days apart.

At time T1 (second week) and time T2 (third week) the DASS-21 will initially be administered followed by two weekly treatments with a visor. At the end (T3) the compilation of both tests (Mini-Z survey 2.0-the single item burnout question and the DASS-21) will be repeated following the last two applications of the viewer.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Occupational Stress
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: visor

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 27
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Italy
  • PD
    • Padova, PD, Italy, 35126
      • Hospice Pediatrico- Azienda Ospedale Università Padova

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• work within the pediatric hospice of Padua
• Absence of neurological pathologies
• personnel who actively engage in membership/participation during all 4 weeks of the project

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subject do not sign written consent

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Virtual reality	Device: visor; The treatment will have a duration of 4 weeks, with the execution of two sessions per week with the use of a viewer positioned on the head that allows users to navigate and interact in real time with a three-dimensional (3D) environment

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
the psychological well-being of healthcare providers: risk of burnout	- Mini-Z Survey 2.0 (single-item): examines the risk of burnout among healthcare provides, particularly The Mini-Z responds to the goal of framing/identifying the burnout risk of workers on the pediatric palliative care team. , it was analysed frequencies and percentages of burnout risk based on the analysis criteria identifiable in Nagasaki et al. 2022 (1- "In Total burnout"; 2-"Always has burnout symptoms the burnout symptoms I perceive are persistent"; 3-"Beginning of burnout"; 4-"Under stress"; 5-"Never felt in Burnout").	Data collection lasted for four weeks
the psychological well-being of healthcare providers: anxiety, depression and stress	- DASS-21(the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales 21) DASS-21 is a psychometric self-assessment test, derived from the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales [22], detecting three constructs: anxiety, depression and stress. It is measured by 21 items on a 4-point Likert scale (from "0-Not at all applies to me" to "3-It applies a lot or most of the time to me"). Cronbach's alpha of .80 is very good evidence of the high reliability of the tool's content.	Data collection lasted for four weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Zanin, Azienda Ospedale-Università Padova

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 7, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 10, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): December 1, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 7, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 30, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): February 8, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 8, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 30, 2024
• Last Verified: January 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: anxiety; virtual reality; burnout; pediatric palliative care
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Behavioral Symptoms; Stress, Psychological; Occupational Diseases; Occupational Stress
• Other Study ID Numbers: ppcVirtualReality

Drug and device information, study documents

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