NCT06215131

Feasibility of Immersive Virtual Reality Dietician Program in Metabolic-dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease

Feasibility of Immersive Virtual Reality Dietician Program in Patients With Metabolic-dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Metabolic-dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease, often referred to as "fatty liver disease", is a leading cause of liver failure. Dietary weight loss is a cornerstone of treating fatty liver disease, but access to traditional in-person nutritional education is often limited by cost, availability, and transportation. Immersive virtual reality (iVR) has the potential to not only overcome these barriers, but also provide an interactive learning experience, such as measuring and preparing foods. Therefore, the investigators have created and validated an iVR dietician program known as the Immersive Virtual Alimentation and Nutrition (IVAN) using evidence-informed practices from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The goal of this project is to translate the IVAN program from human and patient research to practice and community research. The investigators plan to accomplish this by performing a randomized clinical trial evaluating the effect of the IVAN program in combination with synchronous audio/video dietary counseling on self-reported dietary intake and weight compared to in-person counseling. Concurrently, the investigators will provide a survey assessing implementation outcomes to both groups as well as the dietician at each study visit, and crossover the intervention at study completion so all participants assess the IVAN program. Additionally, the investigators will have clinic health care providers experience the IVAN program and assess implementation outcomes.

Conditions

• Fatty Liver, Nonalcoholic
• Weight Loss
• Virtual Reality
• Implementation Science

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	In-person dietary weight loss counseling	The counseling content will be 30 minutes of RDN delivered educational session on energy density and portion sizes then the second 30 minutes being the RDN answering participant questions and providing feedback.
BEHAVIORAL	Virtual reality dietary weight loss counseling	The counseling content will be 30 minutes of virtual reality delivered educational session on energy density and portion sizes with an RDN remotely monitoring then the second 30 minutes being the RDN answering participant questions and providing feedback through synchronous audio/video.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-07-01
• Primary completion: 2025-09-23
• Completion: 2025-09-23
• First posted: 2024-01-22
• Last updated: 2025-10-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States