Burnout, Stress, Virtual Reality
Conditions
Keywords
Virtual reality, stress, embodiment, Burnout
Brief summary
Comparing the emotional effect of two different versions of one VR experience. The VR experience will simulate a typical return to work situation after an absence due to burnout. The difference of the VR scenario is the point of view. In the first version, the 'standard' version, the user is looking at the VR experience from a neutral point of view, as if s/he was watching a 2D screen. In the second version, the 'embodiment' version, a VR features is added to have the user feeling incarnated in a digital human. This will enhance the feeling of being present in the virtual world and will enhance the emotional answer. The measured endpoint will be the evoked emotions, in particular stress.
Interventions
OTHEREmbodiment
Embodiment of a real human in a virtual human (avatar) means that the real human feels incarnated in the avatar. This happens when the real human sees the VRscenario from first person perspective, that the real human can make the avatar move (=agency over the avatar), multi-sensorial integration (=there is a link between the brain of the real human and the avatar. Example, when the avatar sits on a chair, the real human will too and he feels that he is sitting on a chair. Or when the avatar is moving the real human is doing the same movement (and of course the brain of the real human is aware of this movement)) and co-location (= avatar and real human have the sane posture).
OTHERObservation
The person is looking at the VR scenario as if s/he was looking at a TV
Sponsors
Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel
Clinique Saint-Jean, Bruxelles
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Masking description
The principal investigator and outcome assessor will have no idea who is in what arm. It will be another investigator who is randomising the participant.
Intervention model description
Parallel single blind randomised controlled trial
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* working in the office building where the study will be conducted
Exclusion criteria
* neurologic disorder precluding the use of VR goggles (epilepsy, …), * facial wounds precluding the use of VR goggles. * a preliminary test evaluating the stress level will be conducted, DASS -21: stress levels above moderate is an
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| measured stress level | this will be evaluated after the intervention and will take 15 min. | This is measured with a Visual Analogue Scale from 1-10 and with the DASS-21, subscale stress |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| measured Emotional level | 15 min, before (baseline) and after the intervention | general emotional level, measured with the PANAS scale |
| measured stress baseline | 15min, before the intervention | This is measured with a Visual Analogue Scale from 1-10 and with the DASS-21, subscale |
| embodiment evaluation | 20 min after the intervention | measuring the level of embodiment experienced by the user |
| plausibility illusion and place illusion | 20 min after intervention | Answering the question: is it possible that it happens and that it happens here?. Assessed together with the level of embodiment, also with a questionnaire. |
Contacts
Primary ContactArnaud Bosteels, MD
Outcome results
None listed