NCT04091659

Use of Virtual Reality for Overdose Management Educational Trainings

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 98 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This cluster-randomized trial will compare changes in attitudes and knowledge on administering naloxone based on exposure to either a virtual reality educational training or the current standard educational trainings (e.g. on-line videos, printed information handouts) offered at local libraries. Individuals attending local library's naloxone training days will voluntarily complete an anonymous validated survey pre and post attending either the virtual reality or standard educational training.

Detailed description

This study will utilize a cluster-randomized trial design. Entire libraries will be randomized to either offer community members the virtual reality training or the standard educational offerings (e.g. handouts, online videos). Volunteers will be asked to complete the brief, anonymous, and validated Opioid Overdose Knowledge Scale prior to receiving an education intervention (pretest) and then again immediately after (posttest). Neither participants nor investigators will be blinded. Library patrons who do not participate in the study will be offered current standard training materials. Regardless of the library's randomization, to either virtual reality or standard training, all patrons completing pre and post test surveys will have the opportunity to view the virtual reality training or other public health department materials.

Conditions

• Drug Overdose
• Virtual Reality

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Virtual Reality Education	Virtual Reality Education (Intervention): The experimental group of libraries will receive the virtual reality simulation, which is guided by the NLN Jeffries Simulation Theory, and lasts 9 minutes. The virtual reality education is based on scenes and dialogue conducted during the hybrid high-fidelity simulation, from a script developed using the existing hybrid simulation on opioid overdose intervention. This virtual reality education is an educational intervention.
OTHER	Standard Education	Standard Educational (Control): The public health department's training includes printed handouts on how to administer naloxone and youtube videos on how to spot signs and symptoms of overdose and administer naloxone. Additionally, staff are on hand to provide one on one verbal educational trainings to local community members voluntarily seeking education.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-18
• Primary completion: 2020-01-15
• Completion: 2020-01-16
• First posted: 2019-09-17
• Last updated: 2020-12-22
• Results posted: 2020-02-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States