Virtual Reality for Vocational Recovery
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Virtual reality for vocational recovery.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Mental Health Disorder. Basic parameters: 18 years — 25 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Australia
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Enhancing Vocational Support With a Virtual Reality Vocational Skills Building Application: Piloting VR4VR
Overview
Unemployment is higher among young people who experience mental ill-health compared to the general population. This can have a lasting impact on young people, many of whom are highly motivated to gain employment and education. There are many challenges to seeking, gaining, and maintaining employment for young people. To address these challenges and help young people meet their employment and education goals, investigators have developed a VR intervention to support vocational skill building. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and safety, of the Virtual Reality for Vocational Recovery (VR4VR) intervention. A small group of vocational specialists will support up to 20 young people with their vocational outcomes using VR4VR over a 3-6week period. Both young people and specialists will complete questionnaires related to acceptability of the intervention, including qualitative interviews. Data on feasibility and safety will also be collected. Results will inform whether VR is feasible, acceptable, and safe to support vocational outcomes within vocational services that support young people with mental health difficulties, potentially supporting further intervention development and larger trials.
Interventions
- Behavioral Virtual reality for vocational recovery
Intervention is an immersive virtual reality (VR) intervention, delivered through a VR headset, supported by a trained vocational specialist. Intervention content was co-designed with young people with mental health and vocational challenges, and vocational specialists with experiencing supporting this population. Content was guided by goals of vocational programs, including Individual Placement and Support.
Primary outcome measures
- Feasibility - recruitment rates [Time frame: 6 months post intervention commencement]
- Acceptability [Time frame: 6 weeks post intervention commencement]
- Safety - adverse events [Time frame: 6 weeks post intervention commencement]
- Feasibility - consent rates [Time frame: 6 months post intervention commencement]
Secondary outcome measures (12)
- Feasibility - attendance rates of assessments and sessions [Time frame: 6 weeks post intervention commencement]
- Feasibility - delivery of VR4VR [Time frame: 6 months post intervention commencement]
- Feasibility - VR utilisation [Time frame: 6 months post intervention commencement]
- Acceptability - cybersickness [Time frame: 6 weeks post intervention commencement]
- Acceptability - VR presence [Time frame: 6 weeks post intervention commencement]
- Effectiveness - Social and occupational functioning [Time frame: 6 weeks post intervention commencement]
- Effectiveness - Occupational self-efficacy [Time frame: 6 weeks post intervention commencement]
- Effectiveness - General self-efficacy [Time frame: 6 weeks post intervention commencement]
- Feasibility - intervention implementation [Time frame: up to 6 months post intervention commencement]
- Vocational specialist confidence and competence [Time frame: Immediately post-training]
- Implementation - perceived barriers and enablers to use in practice [Time frame: Through study completion an average of 6 months]
- Implementation - perceived barriers and enablers to use in practice [Time frame: Through study completion an average of 6 months]
Eligibility criteria
A young person participant will be considered eligible for inclusion in this study if:
- They are aged 18-25 seeking vocational support at participating vocational support programs
- Have a named care-coordinator or key worker
- Comfortable using a VR headset
- Consent to recording of interview for transcription
Exclusion criteria
- They lack fluency in English (spoken and written), since this is required to understand participate in the VR intervention;
- They have a known diagnosis of a moderate intellectual disability, due to some of the content delivered during the intervention requiring a certain level of understanding.
- As the therapy uses audio and visual means of communication, participants with impairments so severe that they cannot hear instructions, or are unable to see the virtual reality environments, cannot participate. Mild impairments can be accommodated, as sound volume can be turned up, and the Meta Quest headband is used to comfortably use glasses with the headset.
A vocational specialist or staff participant will be considered eligible for inclusion in this study if:
- Presently work within a vocational program and hold a caseload of young people
- Have worked with at least 5 young people within a vocational intervention.
- Sufficient command of the English language
- Consent to audio recording of interview
No exclusion criteria
A staff participant will be considered eligible for inclusion in this study if:
- Presently work within a role supporting a vocational program
- Sufficient command of the English language
- Consent to audio recording of interview
No exclusion criteria
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Other
Study locations
Australia · 3 centers
- Veritas House — Orange
- Orygen Specialist Services — Melbourne
- Youth Focus Burswood — Perth
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07114887 · ORY-P05-24-31