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VR Integrated Into Multicomponent Interventions for Improving Sleep in ICU

Strategies Establishment for Promoting Sleep Quality and Quantity of Patients Requiring Intensive Care: Verifying the Effect of Virtual Reality Integrated Into Multicomponent Interventions

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05518955
Enrollment
120
Registered
2022-08-29
Start date
2022-09-20
Completion date
2025-02-03
Last updated
2025-08-17

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Conditions

Critical Care, Sleep Quality

Keywords

Intensive care unit, Sleep deprivation, Virtual reality, multicomponent intervention

Brief summary

Background: The patients who are admitted to ICUs mostly experience sleep disturbance. Seeking an effective strategy and integrating it into the daily routine is of clinical importance. Therefore, we aim to examine the effects of guided virtual reality integrated into the multicomponent program (SLEEP care) on sleep quality and quantity in critically ill patients. This will be a randomized controlled trial with assessor-blinded and two-arm parallel-group design. A total of 120 critical ill adults will be randomly allocated to the SLEEP care group and eyemask groups in a 1:1 ratio (60 participants in each group).

Detailed description

This study is expected to enroll 120 critically ill patients. We will collect basic data on the first day of admission to the intensive care unit, including demographics and disease characteristics, pain, anxiety, and stress, sleep quality and quantity, measure 5-minute HRV, wear an actigraph watch, and connect to the on-lead EEG sensor, and attach the brain wave to monitor the brain wave and sleep cycle. Then they will be randomly assigned 1:1, dividing into SLEEP care group and eyemask group. Participants who are in the control will receive eyemask intervention and daily care in the ICU. Participants who are assigned to the SLEEP care group will receive the VR and night sleep promotion routine. The researcher will assist participants to wear a virtual reality helmet for a 30-minute program at 10 pm, and then remove the helmet and wear eye masks until 6:30 in the morning. The ICU routine care of promoting sleep is still maintained. The next morning (the second day of the ICU), the researcher will assist participants to remove EEG sensors and evaluate the RCSQ scale to understand the previous night's sleep. The above process will repeat for three days (ICU days 1 to 3) until the intervention and measurement during the intensive care unit are completed on the morning of the fourth day. In order to understand the impact of sleep on cognitive function during the stay in the intensive care units and after discharge, the PSQI, VAS of pain, anxiety, and stress (confounders), and MOCA will be evaluated in the first and sixth months after discharge.

Interventions

Participates will receive a virtual reality program 30 min before their sleep and combine with the sleep routine program for consecutive 2 nights in the ICU.

Sponsors

Hsiao-Yean Chiu
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
20 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Aged 20 years and above. * Conscious and able to communicate with Chinese or Mandarin. * To stay in ICU at least 72 hrs

Exclusion criteria

* The medical history of sleep disorder, cognition impairment, psychiatric disorders, seizures, visual difficulty or hearing difficulty * The APACHE II score over than 25 * The participates who are delirium

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Changes in subjective sleep quality from first day to 3rd day of ICU recruitmentThe 1st to 3rd day of ICU recruitmentSubjective sleep quality in ICU is assessed by Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire(RCSQ). The mean of total score is 0-100. The higher score means the better sleep quality.
Change of subjective sleep quality from before ICU and admission for 30 and 180 days after ICU dischargeThe 1st day of ICU recruitment, 30 and 180 days days after ICU dischargesleep quality is assessed by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality. Index(PSQI). The total score is 0-21. The higher score means the worse sleep quality.
Change of objective sleep from 1st day to 3rd day of ICU recruitmentThe 1st day to 3rd day of ICU recruitmentObjective sleep quality in ICU is measured by actigraphy

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Change from baseline on anxietythe 1st day of ICU recruitment and up to 30 and 180 daysAnxiety is assessed by Visual Analog Scale (VAS) anxiety scoring.The scale is most commonly anchored by no pain (score of 0) and pain as bad as it could be or worst imaginable pain(score of 10) .The higher score means the very anxiety.
Change of stressThe 1st day of ICU recruitment, 30 and 180 days after ICU dischargeStress is assessed by Visual Analog Scale(VAS) stress scoring.The scale is most commonly anchored by no stress (score of 0) and very stressful(score of 10) .The higher score means the very stressful.
Change of quality of life from the first day of ICU recruitment, 30 and 180 day after ICU dischargeThe 30 and 180 days after ICU dischargeCognitive function is assessed by MoCA. The total scales is 30. The scale is more than 26 means the patients do not have cognitive impairment.
ElectroencephalographyThe 1st day to 3rd day of ICU recruitmentElectroencephalography is measured by SOMNOwatch
Change of painThe 1st day of ICU recruitment, 30 and 180 days days after ICU dischargePain is assessed by Visual Analog Scale(VAS) pain scoring.The scale is most commonly anchored by no pain (score of 0) and very painful(score of 10) .The higher score means the very painful.
Delirium occurrenceThe 1st to 3th days of ICU recruitmentDelirium is assessed by Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC) or Confusion Assessment Method for the intensive care unit (CAM-ICU)
Change of heart rate variabilityThe 1st and 3rd days of ICU recruitmentHeart rate variability is measured by portable ECG recorder and analyzer.

Countries

Taiwan

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026