NCT05395221

Making Resident Well-Being a (Virtual) Reality

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: NYU Langone Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is a prospective cross-over trial examining the effect of virtual reality assisted meditation on resident reported well-being using validated scoring systems. The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual reality guided meditation as a mechanism to improve plastic surgery resident well-being. The secondary objective is to assess resident likeliness to continue mindful meditation following completion of the study.

Detailed description

All plastic surgery residents participating will spend three months with access to virtual reality assisted meditation and three months without access to this technology. Assessment scores will be taken before and after the first three month period, and then again following the second three month period.

Conditions

• Mental Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Guided Mediation Virtual Reality App	Guided Meditation Virtual Reality App uses over 40 lush environments with 30 hours of guided meditations on Anxiety, Depression, Maternity, Resilience, Sleep, or Zen and 200 relaxing audio tracks using Virtual reality.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-01-01
• Primary completion: 2024-03-01
• Completion: 2024-03-01
• First posted: 2022-05-27
• Last updated: 2024-01-10