NCT05160025

Immersive Virtual Reality Bicycling for Persons With Parkinson's Disease

Enhancing Exercise Intensity, Motivation and Enjoyment for Persons With PD (VCycle-Competition)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study has three objectives about persons with Parkinson's Disease during bicycling: 1. Determine the effect of visual feedback and competition during virtual bicycling on neuromuscular and cardiovascular intensity 2. Determine the effect of visual-feedback and competition during virtual bicycling on the user experience of motivation, enjoyment \& perception of exercise intensity 3. Determine if attention differs during visual feedback compared to competition virtual bicycling

Detailed description

Participants will attend one sessions lasting about 2-3 hours. They will complete movement assessments and questionnaires about physical activity. They will then exercise exercise in three different virtual reality augmented bicycling conditions while wearing a head mounted display (goggles). Each of the three conditions will last approximately 8 minutes and will be followed by questionnaires about the participant's experience.

Conditions

• Parkinson Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Virtual reality bicycling	This is a single arm study in which all participants will execute the same three bicycling tasks over one session. Exercise intensity and enjoyment are measured while participants bicycle in a virtual reality environment (wearing virtual reality goggles) in three different conditions lasting approximately 8 minutes each.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-27
• Primary completion: 2023-02-17
• Completion: 2023-02-17
• First posted: 2021-12-16
• Last updated: 2023-12-22
• Results posted: 2023-12-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States