Clinical trial NCT06374446: Effect of Virtual Reality in Patients With Long Covid-19
Official title: Investigation of the Effect of Virtual Reality on Fatigue, Functional Capacity and Respiratory Function in Patients With Long Covid-19
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: COVID-19
Lead sponsor: Istinye University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-04-18
Enrollment: 56
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: SARS-CoV-2 was first detected in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, in late 2019. It is a highly contagious virus that has been reported to occur in humans and is said to cause pneumonia.

Covid-19 infection is transmitted through droplets during coughing and sneezing and through contact with the mouth, nose or eyes after contaminated hands. The most obvious symptoms of Covid-19 symptoms include cough, dyspnea and fever. Covid-19, which can also be seen asymptomatic, is in intensive care it may be severe enough to require hospitalization, cause multiple organ failure and even death it could be. Musculoskeletal symptoms such as fatigue, myalgia, and arthralgia are common with Covid-19 are the symptoms. The first case in Turkey was reported on March 11, 2020.

Long-term Covid or Chronic Post Covid Syndrome are multi-system syndromes that last more than 12 weeks and physical, cognitive, psychological, social and occupational domains. The most commonly reported long covid symptoms are; fatigue, shortness of breath, cough, joint pain, chest pain.

Virtual reality application provides its users with content created using computer technology. In a virtual environment with a high perception of reality, the aim is to enable mirror neuron activation, enabling the individual to interact with virtual objects and events with three-dimensional movements and to create the perception of doing all these in the real world.

Virtual reality for training, treatment, rehabilitation, analysis and testing purposes in healthcare can be used. It is possible to use virtual reality for different purposes, for treatment and rehabilitation. With virtual reality applications in treatment and rehabilitation processes It was stated that patient motivation will increase and patient fear and anxiety will decrease.

No study was found in the literature investigating the effect of virtual reality application on fatigue, functional capacity and respiratory function in long-term Covid-19 patients. The purpose of this study; To investigate the effect of virtual reality application on fatigue, functional level and respiratory function in long-term Covid-19 patients.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being between the ages of 18 - 65
* Having been diagnosed with Covid-19
* At least 12 weeks have passed since the diagnosis of Covid-19 and the symptoms continue
* To be cooperative

Exclusion Criteria:

* Having been KOAH
* People with severe visual and cognitive impairment
* Having a neuromuscular disease
* Having a cardiac or pulmonary surgery

Primary outcomes:
measure: Fatigue
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Kinesiophobia
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Evaluation of Respiratory Function
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Shuttle Walking Test
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Endurance Shuttle Walking Test
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Sit and Reach Test
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Peripheral Muscle Strength
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: The Nottingham Health Profile
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Dyspnea
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Energy Consumption
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Posture Analysis
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: Covid-19 Yorkshire Performance
timeFrame: 6 weeks
measure: FACIT Fatigue Scale
timeFrame: 6 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Istinye University
name: Yasemin Buran Çırak, Prof.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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