NCT05612503

Virtual Reality and Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Virtual Reality-based Exercises' Effects on Pulmonary Functions, Cardiopulmonary Capacity, Functional Performance, and Quality of Life in Children With Repaired Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: Qassim University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study has been designed to investigate the effect of 12 weeks of using virtual reality based exercises on pulmonary functions, exercise capacity, functional performance, and quality of life in children with surgically-repaired congenital diaphragmatic hernia.

Detailed description

Children with CDH have significant disruptions in their quality of life (QoL) due to their poor health, in this randomized controlled clinical trial, one important aspect of virtual reality is the interactivity of children and their interests in choosing the exercised game. Each child in two groups perform a specific virtual reality based respiratory exercises for 3 months.

Conditions

• Virtual Reality
• Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
• Children

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Traditional physical therapy program	resistance-based diaphragm strengthening exercises, breathing exercises to increase costal or chest breathing, and breathing exercises to relax the breathing muscles.
OTHER	Virtual reality-based exercises	Virtual reality exercise using Nintendo Wii systems. As game interfaces, the Nintendo Wii systems employ haptic sensor-based controllers and a balance board.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-10
• Primary completion: 2021-09-09
• Completion: 2022-04-15
• First posted: 2022-11-10
• Last updated: 2022-11-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Saudi Arabia