NCT06901193

A Virtual Reality Mindfulness-based Intervention for Nurse Managers

A Virtual Reality Mindfulness-based Intervention: The Impact and Acceptability for Nurse Managers in an Academic Medical Center

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ohio State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A pilot intervention wait-list control study evaluating the effectiveness of a worksite, on-demand virtual reality mindfulness intervention. Outcomes of interest include perceived stress, burnout, work engagement, resilience and respiratory rates. System usability of the VR mindfulness program and integration into the clinical workday will also be assessed for both groups.

Detailed description

This pilot intervention waitlist control study will evaluate the effectiveness of an 8-week on-demand worksite virtual reality mindfulness-based intervention with academic medical center nurse managers and assistant nurse managers. Individual outcome measures will include perceived stress, burnout, resilience, work engagement, weekly respiratory rates, system usability and integration of the intervention into the workday. The study will use a convenience sample of nurse managers and assistant nurse managers recruited from across The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. All participants will provide informed consent which will describe the intervention and wait list control groups, the intervention, and the intervention timelines per requirements of the institutional Internal Review Board. After randomization into intervention and waitlist control groups, all participants will complete outcome measures at the same time one week before the initiation of the VR intervention group, one week after the last day of the VR intervention for the intervention group, and again one week after the waitlist control group receives the VR intervention.

Conditions

• Perceived Stress
• Burnout
• Resilience, Psychological
• Work Engagement

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Virtual Reality Mindfulness intervention	Mindfulness will be offered via a virtual reality headset; participants will use the virtual reality mindfulness program 3 times per week (15 minutes at a time) for 8 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-02-24
• Primary completion: 2025-07-12
• Completion: 2025-07-12
• First posted: 2025-03-28
• Last updated: 2025-07-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States