NCT05958238

The Effects of AR and VR Oral Care Training System on Oral Healthcare for Elderly in Eldercare Students

The Effects of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) Oral Care Training System on Oral Healthcare for Elderly in Eldercare Students

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of an AR/VR oral care training system on the knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and behavioral intentions of students majoring in geriatric care.

Detailed description

A randomized controlled trial design will be employed, students randomly assigned to either the experimental group or the control group. The experimental group will receive a total of two sessions of AR/VR oral care training, each lasting two hours, with the intervention taking place two weeks and four weeks after completing the pre-test questionnaire. The control group, on the other hand, will receive traditional oral care instruction for thirty minutes. Each student collected the data by a self-administered questionnaire before and immediately after each intervention. Linear regression in generalized estimating equations (GEE) compares the differences between both groups.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	AR/VR oral care training system	Students simulated the treatment of the elderly with different physical and oral conditions using virtual situations and employed suitable oral care methods depending on each situation through VR. They learned the Bass brushing technique, the interdental brush cleaning method, and the soft tissue cleaning method through AR.
OTHER	Traditional classroom teaching	The well-trained oral hygienist provided traditional oral care instruction with the same teaching content in the AR/VR-based training system.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-07
• Primary completion: 2023-11-30
• Completion: 2023-12-21
• First posted: 2023-07-24
• Last updated: 2024-10-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan