Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 2:17 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 2:17 PM
NCT ID:
NCT06797895
Brief Summary:
The goal of this study is to explore if Virtual Reality helps patients in the cardiothoracic ICU move more and feel better. Participants will be asked to answer a survey about anxiety, depression, and loneliness. The study team will teach participants how to use the VR device and how to play the game. Participants will play the game at least once per day, but can play as much as they want. Study activities include nurse facilitated patient use of VR applications that involve upper body movement (e.g., using arms and hands to dance or hit objects in a virtual reality environment).
Detailed Description:
Patients who survive critical illness and prolonged intensive care unit (ICU) stays are at risk for debilitating physical (deconditioning, skin injury, and infection), and mental health impairment (depression, anxiety and PTSD). Early mobility improves these deleterious outcomes but is challenging to implement in patients on prolonged bedrest. The purpose of this study is to compare a nurse-led implementation of a Virtual Reality (VR) experience in the Cardio-Thoracic Intensive Care Unit (CT-ICU) to standard of care to improve mobility for patients on prolonged bedrest. The investigators hypothesize that nurse-led implementation of VR experiences in the CT-ICU, in combination with engineering-led patient-centered customization of the VR applications, will improve both the physical and psychological function of ICU patients on prolonged bedrest.
Study:
NCT06797895
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT06797895