NCT05030792

An Attention-Restorative Therapy (ART)-Based Virtual Reality Intervention to Address Cancer-Related Cognitive Impairments Among Breast Cancer Survivors

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is to assess the feasibility of using a Virtual Reality (VR) headset to provide nature-based Attention-Restorative Therapy (ART) as treatment for cognitive impairment in post-treatment cancer survivors. At ART's foundation is the belief that exposure to nature can improve attention by fully engaging a person in a safe and relaxing experience. This intervention uses a VR headset to expose the participant to nature while overcoming some potential barriers of nature-based interventions like access, physical ability, and bad weather. The goal of this study is to understand if people are willing to use the VR headsets to experience nature virtually, if they find it helpful with cancer-related cognitive impairments (CRCI) symptoms and if they are satisfied with using it. Participants will be asked to use self-management materials (weekly home practice logs, Oculus Go™ and online questionnaires) for 6 weeks. Investigators hope to use information from this small feasibility study to study the effectiveness of the intervention in a larger group of cancer survivors and ultimately to help cancer survivors struggling with cognitive impairments.

Conditions

• Breast Cancer Survivorship
• Cancer-related Cognitive Impairment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Attention-restorative therapy (ART)-based virtual reality (VR)	The ART-based VR intervention will be provided using an Oculus Go™ which is a commercially available, all-in-one VR headset with a handheld controller.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-26
• Primary completion: 2022-05-16
• Completion: 2022-05-16
• First posted: 2021-09-01
• Last updated: 2022-11-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States