NCT03562455

Virtual Reality for Power Wheelchair Training

Assessing the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality for Power Wheelchair Driving Training

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of VRSim 3.0 on power wheelchair (PWC) driving skills and to obtain qualitative feedback from users on the design of the virtual reality (VR) simulator to inform device development.

Detailed description

A virtual reality platform may lead to better training of people with complex disabilities who desire to be power wheelchair users and thus allow them to benefit from living a more active life. A virtual reality training program could significantly impact the lives of people with disabilities by improving function, reducing abandonment of power wheelchairs, and reducing morbidity and mortality and associated costs occurring from power wheelchair accidents. This new virtual reality training program will reflect improvements in accessibility, customization, simulator sickness, ease of use, and will have report generating capabilities as compared to previous virtual reality training platforms. The investigators expect that virtual reality training will be a superior alternative to standard in-person wheelchair training.

Conditions

• Spinal Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	VRSim 3.0	VRSim 3.0 is a virtual reality training module.
BEHAVIORAL	In-Person Wheelchair Training	A therapist will be used to train power wheelchair users.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-19
• Primary completion: 2019-08-02
• Completion: 2019-08-02
• First posted: 2018-06-19
• Last updated: 2022-08-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States