NCT07089134

Virtual Reality in Intensive Care Unit: Patient Satisfaction, Clinical and Functional Outcomes, Feasibility

Not yet recruiting NA Last updated 12 September 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing reabilitação fisioterapêutica tradicional in Hospitalized Patients in 90 participants. Not yet recruiting.

Timeline

15 December 2025

Primary endpoint
30 June 2026

31 August 2026

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Hospital Sirio-Libanes
Phase	NA
Status	Not yet recruiting
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	90
Start date	15 December 2025
Primary completion	30 June 2026
Estimated completion	31 August 2026
Sites	1 location across Brazil

Drugs / interventions tested

• reabilitação fisioterapêutica tradicional
• fisioterapia utilizando realidade virtual imersiva

Conditions studied

• Hospitalized Patients — all drugs for Hospitalized Patients →
• ICU Hospitalization — all drugs for ICU Hospitalization →
• Intensive Care Unit-acquired Weakness — all drugs for Intensive Care Unit-acquired Weakness →

Sponsor

Hospital Sirio-Libanes

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Hospitalized Patients or ICU Hospitalization. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Background: Virtual reality is recognized as a progressive technology with the potential to enhance the rehabilitation process. Immersive virtual reality-based treatments can improve motor outcomes in physical rehabilitation, reduce stress caused by the intensive care unit environment and maximize patients' recovery processes.

Objective: To analyze the efficacy of rehabilitation using immersive virtual reality on patient satisfaction and experience, functional and clinical outcomes and the feasibility of its application during the hospitalization period in an intensive care unit (ICU).

Methods: This is a randomized controlled clinical trial involving ICU patients aged 18 years or older, with an estimated ICU stay of ≥ 72 hours, the ability to understand and follow verbal instructions and no diagnosis of psychotic disorders, visual impairment, or hearing loss. Patients will be divided into two groups: one undergoing traditional physiotherapy rehabilitation - control group (CG), and the other receiving physiotherapy using immersive virtual reality (IVR group). The following evaluations will be conducted: mobility condition, physical and psychological discomfort, estimated physical activity level, occurrence of delirium, cognitive decline screening, functionality classification, motivation level, patient experience, sense of immersion in the virtual reality environment, patient satisfaction during the rehabilitation process, occurrence of adverse events, and protocol feasibility. Data will be presented in graphs and tables. Results will be considered statistically significant at a 5% significance level (p ≤ 0.05), and all analyses will be performed using SPSS Statistics version 22.

Expected results: The investigators expect to find evidence that rehabilitation using immersive virtual reality can promote and enable a more pleasant and less traumatic experience during the patient's hospitalization, with greater satisfaction and adherence to the proposed rehabilitation, in addition to being an effective tool to optimize patients' functional and clinical outcomes.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.