The Effects of a Healthy Nutrition Program and Virtual Reality Applications on Body Composition

Summary

The most commonly used method in the management of body compositions of healthy individuals in the recent times is the application of physical activity together with a healthy nutrition (diet). The application of diet together with physical activity cause significant changes in the body composition (fat ratio, muscle mass, lean body mass, etc.). Physical activity can be done with traditional physical activity methods as well as with virtual reality applications. Virtual reality is a simulation or a metaversal facet of a real environment created by a computer or various other electronic devices that allows one or more users to interact with certain elements in a simulated virtual frame through a human-machine interface. Virtual reality applications are generally classified as immersive and non-immersive virtual reality . Commercial games such as Sony Playstation, Microsoft Kinect Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii can be given as examples of non-immersive virtual reality . In order to preserve body composition, different exercise applications can be recommended in addition to the diet program. In the literature, many studies involving diet, physical activity or a combination of these two applications have been experimentally planned and carried out in a controlled manner. In these studies, moderate body weight loss (1-5 kg) was reported with only physical activity. It is a general opinion that diet therapy in addition to planned physical activity (exercise) provides more effective and healthier results than people who lose weight with only diet programs or only exercise. It has been stated in previous studies that body composition and physical fitness improve with virtual reality application as happened wih diet intervention. However, due to the fact that access to virtual reality applications is not very easy, longitudinal studies are needed to evaluate whether they should be included in general body composition and physical fitness improvement programs. At this point, the main purpose of this study is to compare and evaluate the effects of virtual reality applications and healthy nutrition program on improving body composition and physical fitness.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Virtual Reality
• Body Composition
• Healthy Nutrition
• Physical Fitness

Interventions

DEVICE

non-immersive virtual reality

Non-Immersive Virtual Reality Based Physical Activity Application: Application will be carried out 3 days a week, 30 minutes a day, for 4 weeks. Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports game packages will be used using the Microsoft Kinect Xbox 360 game console. It is planned that the participants will engage in physical activity with these game packages.

BEHAVIORAL

Healty Diet Programme

Healthy nutrition program: It will be implemented for 4 weeks.Healthy Nutrition Program: Türkiye Ministry of Health nutrition program will be prepared based on the recommendations of the Turkey Nutrition Guide published by the Ministry of Health in 2016 (TÜBER-2016). A personalized healthy nutrition program will be created in line with this guide, taking into account the age, gender and physical activity status of healthy individuals.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Erzurum Technical University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Betül KOCAADAM_BOZKURT, PhD · Erzurum Technical University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

64 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2023-11-20

Primary Completion

2024-02-15

Completion

2024-04-01