Clinical trial NCT05436132: VR/AR Educational Module on Oral Care Practices for Home Care Worker
Official title: The Effects of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) Educational Module on Oral Care Practices for Home Care Worker
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Virtual Reality
Augmented Reality
Oral Care Performance
Keywords: Virtual reality
Augmented reality
Oral Care Performance
home care worker
elderly
Lead sponsor: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-06-28
Enrollment: 173
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: This study is to evaluate the effect of the elderly oral care knowledge, attitude ,self-efficacy ,oral care behavior between the home care workers(HCW) in VR(Virtual reality)/AR(Augmented reality)group and control group after intervention. Home care workers will be randomly assigned to the VR/AR group and the control group. Home care workers in the VR/AR group will use VR to learned about the oral care methods and processes in the different case. AR allows HCWs to actually operate cleaning teeth. The home care workers in the control group used traditional teaching methods for oral care. Baseline and follow-up survey were used to collect the data in oral care knowledge, attitude ,self-efficacy ,oral care behavior.

Detailed description: A randomized experimental design was used. Home care workers (HCWs) in the VR/AR group received 2.5 hours of VR(Virtual reality) and AR(Augmented reality) training. VR offered learners the standard oral care procedures under different physical and oral health conditions in elderly people and AR simulation training for the manual Bass brushing technique. The home care workers in the control group used traditional teaching methods for oral care. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data regarding oral care-related knowledge, attitude, self-efficacy, intention to assist in oral care behavior and behavior before and after the intervention, 3-month follow-up and 6-month follow-up. All participants finished the self-administered questionnaire within 10-15 minutes and handed it to researchers at VR/AR oral care training center in Kaohsiung Medical University.Generalized estimating equations (GEEs) was used to analyze the differences between pre-test, post-test and follow-ups.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* certificated home care workers in Taiwan.

Exclusion Criteria:

* aged above 65 were excluded.

Primary outcomes:
measure: oral care behavior
timeFrame: Change from 3-month follow-up to 6-month follow-up. After two groups HCWs received the intervention, 3 months and 6 months HCWs would received follow-up questionnaire to finish the measurement.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Oral care-related knowledge
timeFrame: After randomization, HCWs would receive pre-test before intervention and post-test after intervention immediately. The follow-up questionnaire to measure at 3 months and 6 months after intervention.
measure: Attitude toward oral care
timeFrame: After randomization, HCWs would receive pre-test before intervention and post-test after intervention immediately. The follow-up questionnaire to measure at 3 months and 6 months after intervention.
measure: Self-efficacy of oral care
timeFrame: After randomization, HCWs would receive pre-test before intervention and post-test after intervention immediately. The follow-up questionnaire to measure at 3 months and 6 months after intervention.
measure: Intention to assist in oral care behavior
timeFrame: After randomization, HCWs would receive pre-test before intervention and post-test after intervention immediately.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Kaohsiung city
country: Taiwan
facility: Kaohsiung Medical University
state: Sanmin Dist
Study officials:
affiliation: Kaohsiung Medical University
name: Hsiao-Ling Huang
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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