Clinical trial NCT04469478: Virtual Reality in Imaging Review for Cancer Patients
Official title: The Use of Virtual Reality for Diagnostic Imaging Review With Cancer Patients
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: WITHDRAWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Patient Education
Virtual Reality
Diagnostic Imaging
Cancer Patient
Lead sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Colorado State University
First posted: 2020-07-14
Enrollment: 0
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: Single Arm Exploratory Study
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Patients with cancer and their caregivers may have difficulty understanding the site and extent of their disease. Poor comprehension may negatively impact patients and caregivers, leading to increased anxiety, reduced compliance, decreased trust of the physician, and limited shared medical decision making ability. Most patients want to be thoroughly informed, with over a third of cancer patients wishing they had been better informed about side effects that they experienced due to their treatment. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of diagnostic imaging review using 3D virtual reality compared to standard 2D imaging review for patients and their caregiver(s) using a mixed methods approach of survey and qualitative interview based approaches.

Detailed description: This study will use virtual reality to display the patient's diagnostic imaging in 3D with live volumetric rendering. This study will explore if this approach improves patient and caregiver understanding of their disease. Eligible patients should have available diagnostic imaging consisting of CT, MRI, and/or PET-CT. Prior to their consultation in radiation oncology, patients will complete a survey about their prior experience reviewing their diagnostic imaging. During the consultation, patients and caregivers will be shown their medical imaging in 2D on a computer screen, then in 3D with virtual reality. After the consultation, the patient and caregiver(s) will complete a 2nd survey comparing virtual reality to standard imaging review with domains of perceived understanding, patient preference, and satisfaction. Then, the patient and caregiver(s) will undergo a qualitative interview exploring their experience with virtual reality compared to standard imaging review. The survey questions comparing virtual reality to standard imaging review will be statistically evaluated. The recorded interview session will be qualitatively analyzed using with a mixed methods approach by thematically categorizing the respondents' answers.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Willingness to sign and date the consent form.
* Willingness to comply with all study procedures and be available for the duration of the study.
* Male or female patient 18 years or older.
* Available diagnostic imaging (MRI, CT and/or PET)
* Consultation in radiation oncology for consideration of radiation therapy.
* English speaking.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Inability to complete virtual reality, survey and interview.
* Non-English speaking
* Patients with visual defects that affect their ability to view content in VR

Primary outcomes:
measure: Successful Completion of Imaging Review Using Virtual Reality
timeFrame: During the consultation 1 day visit
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Satisfaction and preference
timeFrame: During the consultation 1 day visit
measure: Qualitative feedback regarding imaging review using virtual reality
timeFrame: During the consultation 1 day visit
measure: Baseline demographics and imaging review experience
timeFrame: During the consultation 1 day visit
measure: Intervention time interval
timeFrame: During the consultation 1 day visit
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Aurora
country: United States
facility: University of Colorado, Anschutz Cancer Center
state: Colorado
Study officials:
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