Clinical trial NCT05253703: Immersive Virtual Reality Bicycling for Healthy Adults
Official title: Enhancing Exercise Intensity, Motivation and Enjoyment for Younger and Older Healthy Adults (VCycle-Competition-HA)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Healthy
Keywords: competition
exercise
bicycling
aging
virtual reality
Lead sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-02-24
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Maximum age (years): 75
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This study has four objectives about healthy younger and older adults during immersive virtual reality bicycling:

Determine the effect of visual feedback and competition for younger healthy adults during virtual bicycling on user experience, motivation, enjoyment, perception of effort, and neuromuscular and cardiovascular intensity

Determine the effect of visual feedback and competition for older healthy adults during virtual bicycling on user experience, motivation, enjoyment, perception of effort, and neuromuscular and cardiovascular intensity

Compare younger and older during visual feedback and competition bicycling in terms of: user experience, motivation, enjoyment, perception of effort, neuromuscular and cardiovascular intensity

Determine if attention differs in visual feedback bicycling compared to competition bicycling for younger and older healthy adults

Detailed description: Participants will attend one session lasting about 1.5 hours. They will complete a competitiveness assessment and a questionnaire about physical activity. They will then exercise in three different virtual reality augmented bicycling conditions while wearing a head mounted display (goggles). Each of the three conditions will last approximately 5 minutes and will be followed by questionnaires about the participant's experience.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 21-75 years old,
* Able to ride a stationary upright bicycle,
* Able to sign informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Have a recent history of severe heart disease, severe lung disease, uncontrolled diabetes, traumatic brain injury or any other neurological disorder
* Are unable to follow directions or sign a consent form,
* Do not have adequate vision or hearing ability to see or hear a television,
* Have unstable medical condition or musculoskeletal disorder such as severe arthritis, recent knee surgery, hip surgery, or any other condition that the investigators determine would impair the ability to ride the bicycle,
* Have any other medical condition that prevents bicycling,
* Have moderate depression (score of 10 or more on PHQ-9 screening tool)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Neuromuscular Intensity (Bicycling cadence, revolutions per minute) - Feedback
timeFrame: Session 1 - During the 5-minute feedback bout
measure: Neuromuscular Intensity (Bicycling cadence, revolutions per minute) - Self-Competition
timeFrame: Session 1 - During the 5-minute self-competition bout
measure: Neuromuscular Intensity (Bicycling cadence, revolutions per minute) - Other-Competition
timeFrame: Session 1 - During the 5-minute other-competition bout
measure: Motivation (Intrinsic Motivation Inventory) - Feedback
timeFrame: Session 1 - Immediately after completing the 5-minute feedback bout
measure: Motivation (Intrinsic Motivation Inventory) - Self-Competition
timeFrame: Session 1 - Immediately after completing the 5-minute self-competition bout
measure: Motivation (Intrinsic Motivation Inventory) - Other-Competition
timeFrame: Session 1 - Immediately after completing the 5-minute other-competition bout
measure: Cardiovascular Intensity (Heart rate, beats per minute) - Feedback
timeFrame: Session 1 - During the 5-minute feedback bout
measure: Cardiovascular Intensity (Heart rate, beats per minute) - Self-Competition
timeFrame: Session 1 - During the 5-minute self-competition bout
measure: Cardiovascular Intensity (Heart rate, beats per minute) - Other-Competition
timeFrame: Session 1 - During the 5-minute other-competition bout
measure: Visual Attention (infrared eye-tracking data representing gaze positions in a 3D coordinate plane to be used in calculating dwell time in regions of interest in the virtual simulation) - Feedback
timeFrame: Session 1 - During the 5-minute feedback bout
measure: Visual Attention (infrared eye-tracking data representing gaze positions in a 3D coordinate plane to be used in calculating dwell time in regions of interest in the virtual simulation) - Self-Competition
timeFrame: Session 1 - During the 5-minute self-competition bout
measure: Visual Attention (infrared eye-tracking data representing gaze positions in a 3D coordinate plane to be used in calculating dwell time in regions of interest in the virtual simulation) - Other-Competition
timeFrame: Session 1 - During the 5-minute other-competition bout
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Rating of Perceived Exertion - Feedback (start)
timeFrame: Session 1 - Immediately at the start (0-minute mark) of the 5-minute feedback bout
measure: Rating of Perceived Exertion - Feedback (middle)
timeFrame: Session 1 - At the midpoint (2.5-minute mark) of the 5-minute feedback bout
measure: Rating of Perceived Exertion - Feedback (end)
timeFrame: Session 1 - At the endpoint (5-minute mark) of the 5-minute feedback bout
measure: Rating of Perceived Exertion - Self-Competition (start)
timeFrame: Session 1 - Immediately at the start (0-minute mark) of the 5-minute self-competition bout
measure: Rating of Perceived Exertion - Self-Competition (middle)
timeFrame: Session 1 -At the midpoint (2.5-minute mark) of the 5-minute self-competition bout
measure: Rating of Perceived Exertion - Self-Competition (end)
timeFrame: Session 1 -At the end (5-minute mark) of the 5-minute self-competition bout
measure: Rating of Perceived Exertion - Other-Competition (start)
timeFrame: Session 1 -Immediately at the start (0-minute mark) of the 5-minute other-competition bout
measure: Rating of Perceived Exertion - Other-Competition (middle)
timeFrame: Session 1 -At the midpoint (2.5-minute mark) of the 5-minute other-competition bout
measure: Rating of Perceived Exertion - Other-Competition (end)
timeFrame: Session 1 -At the end (5-minute mark) of the 5-minute other-competition bout
measure: Competitiveness (Multidimensional Competitive Orientation Inventory)
timeFrame: Session 1 - Collected once at start of session
measure: Ranking of Perceived Effort
timeFrame: Session 1 - once at the end of the session. Collected upon study completion, immediately after finishing the final bicycling condition
measure: Ranking of Enjoyment
timeFrame: Session 1 - once at the end of the session. Collected upon study completion, immediately after finishing the final bicycling condition
measure: Audio recordings of exercise experience
timeFrame: Session 1 - once at the end of the session. Collected upon study completion, immediately after finishing the final bicycling condition
Other outcomes:
measure: International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ)
timeFrame: Collected once at start of the session
measure: Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9)
timeFrame: Collected once during screening
Locations:
city: Newark
country: United States
facility: Rutgers School of Health Professions
state: New Jersey
Study officials:
affiliation: Rutgers School of Health Professions
name: Judith E Deutsch
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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