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Virtual reality exposure therapy as a means of health promotion in university: a randomized clinical trial

Virtual reality as a means of promoting health in university UFPR Setor Litoral

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
REBEC
Registry ID
RBR-69wpmz
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2015-05-18
Start date
2014-02-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-10-27

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Sedentary

Interventions

Experimental group: 20 healthy university students receive exposure to virtual reality therapy for 3 months, 2 times for weekly, with moderate exercise. Control group: 20 students will be accompanied
Behavioural
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Sponsors

Universidade Federal do Paraná - Setor de Ciências da Saúde/ SCS
Lead Sponsor
Universidade Federal do Paraná - Setor de Ciências da Saúde/ SCS
Collaborator

Eligibility

Age
18 Years to 30 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Healthy students of the Federal University of Parana Coastal Sector; of both sexes; aged between 18 and 30 years.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: comorbidities that interfered with evaluation of the participants as chronic, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal or neurological disease; students undergoing surgery last year; students that they had no time availability.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Improves motor skills verified by the tests of sit and reach, abdominal strength test, push-up test, run test and going back and fifty metros running test from the significant variation of finding at least 5% in pre and post-intervention measurements;Found outcome: significant improvement (p <0.05) motor capacity verified by means of abdominal strength tests, arm flexion test, running test and going back and running test fifty meters. However, there was no change in the sit and reach test (p = 0.45).

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Increased awareness of physical fitness checked by Questionnaire IFIS - International Fitness Scale, improved physical activity level verified by the IPAQ long version and improved spinal function verified by the stress tests of the test trunk extensor muscles modified Biering-Sorensen test of endurance of the flexor muscles of the trunk and test resistance of the lateral muscles of the trunk by the side bridge test. Changes will be detected as a significant change of at least 5% in the pre and post-intervention measurements.;Outcome found: there was no significant improvement in the perception of physical fitness (p = 0.33) verified by IFIS Questionnaire - International Fitness Scale, no significant improvement (p = 0.24) of the physical activity level verified by version IPAQ long and significant improvement in functionality to the spine only of the trunk extensor muscle endurance tests (p = 0.02) and flexor trunk (p = 0.01).

Countries

Brazil

Contacts

Public ContactRaciele Korelo

Universidade Federal do Paraná

raciele_guarda@yahoo.com.br+55 (41) 9177 6161

Outcome results

None listed

Source: REBEC (via WHO ICTRP)