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The Effect of Virtual Reality on Self-Efficacy and Quality of Life in COPD Patients

NCT07001683 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 62

Last updated 2025-06-03

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Summary

Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a serious chronic disease worldwide with significant adverse effects on patients' quality of life, family economic burden and social health care burden. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of breathing and cough exercises performed with virtual reality technology on quality of life and self-efficacy in COPD patients.

Methods: The study was conducted as a pre-test post-test randomised controlled experimental study. The study included 64 patients with COPD, randomly assigned to receive virtual reality-based breathing and exercises (experimental group n=32) and patients receiving routine clinical treatment (control group, n=32). Interventions were conducted three times a week for 6 weeks. Google VR SDK (Google Virtual Reality Software Development Kit) was used for the training of the experimental group. In the evaluation of the data; mean, number, percentage distributions, dependent and independent groups t-test analysis methods were used.

Conditions

  • Nursing Caries
  • Copd
  • Cough
  • Quality of Life
  • Self Efficacy

Interventions

DEVICE

VR SHINECON VIRTUAL REALITY GLASES

Unity program; It is a game engine that is used for the development of 2D, 3D, virtual reality and augmented reality applications and also has mobile support. 3D objects and animations necessary to develop the application have been prepared. These objects and animations; It was developed in the Autodesk 3ds Max program, where 3D modeling and animations are made. The virtual reality aspect of the application is integrated into the Google VR SDK (Google Virtual Reality Software Development Kit). Interactions in the virtual environment and 360° viewing operations in the virtual world are provided through this Google VR SDK. The development process was completed by writing application codes in C#, one of the languages supported by the Unity program, using the methods included in the SDK.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ataturk University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Prof. Dr. Mağfiret Kaşıkçı

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Emrah Ay

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • MAĞFİRET KAŞIKÇI · Advısor

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-12-01
Primary Completion
2023-01-01
Completion
2023-02-10

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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