Virtual Reality Intervention to Alleviate Breathlessness (COVID-19)
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- COVID-19
- Dyspnea
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: N/AIntervention Model: Single Group AssignmentIntervention Model Description: Participants perform both conditions. Condition order is randomised across participants.Masking: None (Open Label)Masking Description: Participants know they will perform two conditions. They do not know the order and are naïve to the hypothesised effects.Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 18 years and 125 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
Refractory breathlessness is the experience of breathlessness that persists despite optimal treatment of the underlying pathophysiology, and results in physical, psychosocial disability for the patient. As observed for SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV patients, a significant portion of COVID-19 patients presen...
Refractory breathlessness is the experience of breathlessness that persists despite optimal treatment of the underlying pathophysiology, and results in physical, psychosocial disability for the patient. As observed for SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV patients, a significant portion of COVID-19 patients present with persistent respiratory physiological impairment and refractory breathlessness that may not be addressed with conventional respiratory treatment such as oxygen, bronchodilators, diuretics or non-invasive ventilation. Previous research on respiration-related feedback in Virtual Reality (VR) has demonstrated strong and replicable effects of VR feedback over one's perceived sense of agency and control over one's virtually embodied respiration. Based on these studies, the VR intervention evaluated here aims to alleviate symptoms of perceived breathlessness. This within-subject study will compare breathing (dis-) comfort prior, during, and after a VR intervention that provides embodied visual feedback of participants' on-going respiration. Primary outcomes include subjective reports from participants (perceived efficacy, acceptability, and demand) and the intervention's clinical feasibility. Secondary outcomes include changes in respiration rate and variability as well as subjective ratings on perceived embodiment and sense of agency.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT04844567
- Collaborators
- Mindmaze SA
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Olaf Blanke, Prof Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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