NCT06539065

The Effects of VR Interactive Games on Balance and Quality of Life Enhancement for Elderly in the Community

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 63 (actual)
• Sponsor: Taipei Medical University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn about the effectiveness of the incorporating VR interactive games into exercise courses of the elderly in the community.The main questions It aims to answer are: can It improve their balance ability and the quality of life. Participants will receive a Twelve-week intervention of 36 sessions using VR interactive games in their exercise prescription, While the control group will follow the original iInstructor-led exercise intervention as the course content.

Detailed description

Both groups will undergo three sessions per week, one hour per session, for a total of 12 weeks and 36 sessions of intervention. Before and after competing all sessions, the effectiveness of this intervention will be assessed. Some physical assessments will be done by all participants such as 2-minute step, right chair sit and reach, left chair sit and reach to compare if any difference between two groups. and participants will do a questionaire to evaluate the psychological and environmental quality of life.

Conditions

• Virtual Reality

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	VR interactive games	The experimental group received a twelve-week intervention of 36 sessions using VR interactive games in their exercise prescription,

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-13
• Primary completion: 2023-06-05
• Completion: 2023-06-15
• First posted: 2024-08-06
• Last updated: 2024-08-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan