Comparison Between Conventional Intervention and Non-immersive Virtual Reality in the Rehabilitation of Individuals in an Inpatient Unit for the Treatment of COVID-19: A Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial

Frontiers in Psychology

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Talita Dias da Silva¹  Celso Ferreira¹  Íbis Ariana Peña de Moraes²  Deise Mara Mota Silva²  Viviani Barnabé³  Luciano Vieira de Araújo²  Heloísa Baccaro Rossetti Santana⁴  Carlos Bandeira de Mello Monteiro²  Patricia Mattos de Oliveira¹  Josiane Borges Dionizio¹  Andreia Paiva de Santana¹  Shayan Bahadori⁵  Eduardo Dati Dias²  Cinthia Mucci Ribeiro¹  Renata de Andrade Gomes¹  Marcelo Ferreira¹ 

[1] Departamento de Medicina (Cardiologia), Escola Paulista de Medicina da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP);Ciências e Humanidades da Universidade de São Paulo (PATER EACH USP);Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Cidade de São Paulo (UNICID);Serviço de Fisioterapia do Hospital São Paulo, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (HSP UNIFESP);Executive Business Centre, Orthopaedic Research Institute, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

关键词: coronavirus;    telerehabilitation;    virtual reality exposure therapy;    hospitals;    rehabilitation;    autonomic nervous system;    physical functional performance;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.622618

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background: The new human coronavirus that leads to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) has spread rapidly around the world and has a high degree of lethality. In more severe cases, patients remain hospitalized for several days under treatment of the health team. Thus, it is important to develop and use technologies with the aim to strengthen conventional therapy by encouraging movement, physical activity, and improving cardiorespiratory fitness for patients. In this sense, therapies for exposure to virtual reality (VR) are promising and have been shown to be an adequate and equivalent alternative to conventional exercise programs. Aim: This is a study protocol with the aim of comparing the conventional physical therapy intervention with the use of a non-immersive VR software during COVID-19 hospitalization. Methods: Fifty patients hospitalized with confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 will be divided in two groups under physiotherapy treatment using conventional or VR intervention: Group A: participants with COVID-19 will start the first day of the protocol with VR tasks in the morning and then in the second period, in the afternoon, will perform the conventional exercises ( n = 25) and Group B: participants with COVID-19 will start the first day with conventional exercises in the morning and in the second period, in the afternoon, will perform activity with VR ( n = 25). All participants will be evaluated with different motor and physiologic scales before and after the treatment to measure improvements. Conclusion: Considering the importance of benefits from physical activity during hospitalization, VR software shows promise as a potential mechanism for improving physical activity. The results of this study may provide new insights into hospital rehabilitation. Trial Registration:ClinicalTrials.gov , identifier: {"type":"clinical-trial","attrs":{"text":"NCT04537858","term_id":"NCT04537858"}} NCT04537858 . Registered on 01 September 2020.

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