NCT05436132

VR/AR Educational Module on Oral Care Practices for Home Care Worker

The Effects of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) Educational Module on Oral Care Practices for Home Care Worker

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 173 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is to evaluate the effect of the elderly oral care knowledge, attitude ,self-efficacy ,oral care behavior between the home care workers(HCW) in VR(Virtual reality)/AR(Augmented reality)group and control group after intervention. Home care workers will be randomly assigned to the VR/AR group and the control group. Home care workers in the VR/AR group will use VR to learned about the oral care methods and processes in the different case. AR allows HCWs to actually operate cleaning teeth. The home care workers in the control group used traditional teaching methods for oral care. Baseline and follow-up survey were used to collect the data in oral care knowledge, attitude ,self-efficacy ,oral care behavior.

Detailed description

A randomized experimental design was used. Home care workers (HCWs) in the VR/AR group received 2.5 hours of VR(Virtual reality) and AR(Augmented reality) training. VR offered learners the standard oral care procedures under different physical and oral health conditions in elderly people and AR simulation training for the manual Bass brushing technique. The home care workers in the control group used traditional teaching methods for oral care. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data regarding oral care-related knowledge, attitude, self-efficacy, intention to assist in oral care behavior and behavior before and after the intervention, 3-month follow-up and 6-month follow-up. All participants finished the self-administered questionnaire within 10-15 minutes and handed it to researchers at VR/AR oral care training center in Kaohsiung Medical University.Generalized estimating equations (GEEs) was used to analyze the differences between pre-test, post-test and follow-ups.

Conditions

• Virtual Reality
• Augmented Reality
• Oral Care Performance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	VR and AR oral healthcare curriculum training	HCWs in the VR/AR group received 2.5 hours VR and AR oral healthcare curriculum training. VR oral care training system was training the standard oral healthcare procedure for different physical and oral conditions in elderly people.AR oral care training system was training for the manual Bass brushing technique.
BEHAVIORAL	traditional teaching methods oral healthcare curriculum	HCWs in the control group received 2.5 hours traditional teaching methods of oral healthcare curriculum training.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-13
• Primary completion: 2022-12-30
• Completion: 2022-12-30
• First posted: 2022-06-28
• Last updated: 2023-10-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan