Clinical trial NCT06156540: Virtual Reality Glasses in Palliative Care
Official title: The Effect of Virtual Reality Glasses on the Psychological Well-Being and Care Burden of Patient Relatives Giving Care to Patients in the Palliative Care Clinic
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Virtual Reality
Keywords: Virtual reality
Nursing
Palliative care
Lead sponsor: Necmettin Erbakan University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Health Institutes of Turkey
First posted: 2023-12-05
Enrollment: 44
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Developments in medicine and technology have led to an increase in life expectancy and an increase in the need for palliative care. palliative Care aims to reduce or eliminate a life-threatening situation. The palliative care team cares for the patient and provides informal support to the patient. It should provide care that centers on caregivers (patient's relatives). Relatives of patients who provide palliative care are responsible for their care As it increases, problems such as fatigue, hopelessness and anger may occur. Problems experienced by caregivers of patients Eliminating this problem and integrating it into care by providing psychosocial support is essential for the quality of care. caregivers Health technologies can be used to support In our research, we found that virtual reality glasses were used in palliative care clinics. It is aimed to investigate the effect of patient relatives who care for inpatients on the psychological well-being and care burden. A randomized controlled research design was used in the study. The population of the research is a country in Turkey between June and October 2023. The study consisted of patient relatives who provide care to patients in the palliative care clinic of the public hospital in the province. To research Relatives of patients who met the participation criteria and agreed to participate (control group, n=22; experimental group, n=22) constituted the sample. Data were collected from "Caregiver Introduction Form", "Psychological Well-Being Scale", "Caregiving Burden Scale" and "Virtual Reality Glasses". It was collected using the "Satisfaction Form". Before starting the research, a preliminary study was conducted with four patient relatives. of research In the implementation, firstly the preliminary application of the data collection tools was made. Then, the experimental group was given weekly Videos containing 360-degree images were watched using virtual reality glasses for 30 minutes for three days. In the control group No intervention was made. At the end of the research, the final application of the data collection tools was made. From research The data obtained was analyzed with the SPSS 22.0 package program.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Volunteering to participate in the research,
* No vision, hearing or perception impairment that prevents communication,
* Not using glasses to wear VR glasses,
* No psychiatric disease,
* Absence of complaints such as migraine, vertigo, active nausea, vomiting, headache,
* Not having someone to help you care for your patient.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Wanting to leave the research.

Primary outcomes:
measure: psychological well-being
timeFrame: Four weeks after pretest
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Determine maintenance burden
timeFrame: Four weeks after pretest
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Konya
country: Turkey
facility: Necmettin Erbakan University
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