Music, Virtual Reality for Patients in IUGM

NCT ID: NCT06296199

Last Updated: 2025-02-11

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 40 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-05-01
• Study Completion Date: 2024-10-23

Brief Summary

Promoting good care, well-being and quality of life for geriatric patients is a long-standing initiative in Quebec, and one in which the Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal (IUGM) has always been a leader. For example, the IUGM played a major role in drafting the reference framework for the AAPA (approach adapted to the needs of the elderly), which was introduced by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services Sociaux in 2011. The investigator propose to continue this work by focusing in this project on the development of a new intervention aimed at the well-being and quality of life of geriatric patients and based on music and VR.

Thee investigator hypothesize (1) that a VR headset-based intervention based on listening to and observing a concert of musicians playing classical music is feasible for patients hospitalized at the IUGM's URFI and in patients attending the geriatric outpatient clinic, and (2) that this intervention can improve their mental health - i.e. their positive emotions, well-being and quality of life - and reduce their anxiety.

Conditions

Aging; Disorder, Neurologic

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Intervention

participants will listen to and watch a concert of musicians playing classical music through a VR headset

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

VR

Intervention Type: OTHER

The participant will be seated comfortably in an armchair. The intervention will last 15 minutes. It will take place once.

This group's intervention will be to watch and listen with VR headphones to a concert by a group of musicians playing music.

Control

participants will simply listen to the concert through headphones

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Music only

Intervention Type: OTHER

The participant will be seated comfortably in an armchair. The intervention will last 15 minutes. It will take place once.

This group's intervention will be to listen with conventional headphones to a concert by a group of musicians playing music.

Interventions

VR

The participant will be seated comfortably in an armchair. The intervention will last 15 minutes. It will take place once.

This group's intervention will be to watch and listen with VR headphones to a concert by a group of musicians playing music.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Music only

The participant will be seated comfortably in an armchair. The intervention will last 15 minutes. It will take place once.

This group's intervention will be to listen with conventional headphones to a concert by a group of musicians playing music.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• be hospitalized at the URFI of the IUGM, or being a patients attending the geriatric outpatient clinic
• be 60 years of age or older,
• not have an acute intercurrent pathology in the week preceding the procedure and during the two days of the procedure,
• have no psycho-behavioural disorders,
• no major neurocognitive disorder at a severe stage,
• no severe visual or hearing impairment,
• no vestibular balance disorders,
• give written consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Participate in another concurrent experimental clinical study, to avoid interference with our study.
• Do not understand written or spoken French or English. The participants are French and/or English speakers, and the questionnaires are only available in these 2 languages.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 60 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Centre integre universitaire de sante et de services sociaux du Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Olivier Beauchet

MD, PhD, director of AgeTeQ Lab at CRIUGM

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

CRIUGM

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Countries

Canada

Other Identifiers

2024-2064

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id