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Open Access 01-12-2022 | COVID-19 | Study protocol

A virtual reality home-based training for the management of stress and anxiety among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Authors: Federica Pallavicini, Eleonora Orena, Simona di Santo, Luca Greci, Chiara Caragnano, Paolo Ranieri, Costanza Vuolato, Alessandro Pepe, Guido Veronese, Stefano Stefanini, Federica Achille, Antonios Dakanalis, Luca Bernardelli, Francesca Sforza, Angelo Rossini, Carlo Caltagirone, Sara Fascendini, Massimo Clerici, Giuseppe Riva, Fabrizia Mantovani

Published in: Trials | Issue 1/2022

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Abstract

Background

Healthcare workers represent one of the most affected categories by the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health. Excessive stress and anxiety are critical factors that could compromise work performance. Besides, high levels of stress and anxiety may have long-term physical and psychological consequences. Recent studies investigated virtual reality to reduce stress and anxiety among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the proposed virtual reality interventions have important limitations related to their location (i.e., research lab and hospitals) and content (i.e., virtual experiences only for relaxation). Within this context, this randomized controlled trial aims to investigate the efficacy and acceptability of a brief home-based virtual reality training for managing stress and anxiety during the COVID-19 crisis in a sample of Italian healthcare workers.

Methods

The study is a randomized controlled trial. It includes two groups of 30 individuals recruited from healthcare workers: (1) the experimental group and (2) the control group. Participants in the experimental group will receive a training consisting of three home sessions performed in a week. In each session, participants will try through an immersive virtual reality standalone system (i.e., Oculus Quest 2) a virtual psychoeducation experience on stress and anxiety (i.e., MIND-VR). Subsequently, they will try the virtual relaxation content (i.e., The Secret Garden). The control group will receive no training and will be reassessed one week and one month after the initial evaluation.

Discussion

If the proposed brief home-based virtual reality training will result helpful and easy to use, it could become an empirically assessed viable option for protecting healthcare workers’ mental health both during the COVID-19 pandemic and once it will be over. Furthermore, the intervention might be easily adapted for other categories of people who need support in managing stress and anxiety.

Trial registration

ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04611399.
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Metadata
Title
A virtual reality home-based training for the management of stress and anxiety among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Authors
Federica Pallavicini
Eleonora Orena
Simona di Santo
Luca Greci
Chiara Caragnano
Paolo Ranieri
Costanza Vuolato
Alessandro Pepe
Guido Veronese
Stefano Stefanini
Federica Achille
Antonios Dakanalis
Luca Bernardelli
Francesca Sforza
Angelo Rossini
Carlo Caltagirone
Sara Fascendini
Massimo Clerici
Giuseppe Riva
Fabrizia Mantovani
Publication date
01-12-2022
Publisher
BioMed Central
Keywords
COVID-19
Anxiety
Published in
Trials / Issue 1/2022
Electronic ISSN: 1745-6215
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06337-2

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