NCT02251054

Virtual Avatar Coaches for Behavioral Therapy of Patients With Overactive Bladder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 47 (actual)
• Sponsor: Miami VA Healthcare System · Federal
• Sex: Female
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study compares the efficacy of embedding avatars into an online self-management program that teaches OAB behavioral therapy on OAB-related quality of life, symptoms, self-efficacy, and adherence versus the same program without avatars

Conditions

• Overactive Bladder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Avatar group	We developed and tested the online program of three multimedia tutorials using the game development and rendering engine (Unity3D, Unity Technologies, San Francisco, CA). This arm saw the tutorials with Avatars.
OTHER	No Avatar group	We developed and tested the online program of three multimedia tutorials using the game development and rendering engine (Unity3D, Unity Technologies, San Francisco, CA). This arm saw the tutorials without Avatars.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-10-01
• Primary completion: 2013-07-01
• Completion: 2013-10-01
• First posted: 2014-09-26
• Last updated: 2014-09-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States