Comparison Between Conventional Intervention and Non-immersive Virtual Reality in the Rehabilitation of Individuals in an Inpatient Unit for the Treatment of COVID-19: A Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial

The new human coronavirus that leads to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) has spread rapidly around the world and has a high degree of lethality. In more severe cases, patients remain hospitalized for several days under treatment of the health team. Thus, it is important to develop and use technol...

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Published in:	Frontiers in psychology Vol. 12; p. 622618
Main Authors:	da Silva, Talita Dias, de Oliveira, Patricia Mattos, Dionizio, Josiane Borges, de Santana, Andreia Paiva, Bahadori, Shayan, Dias, Eduardo Dati, Ribeiro, Cinthia Mucci, Gomes, Renata de Andrade, Ferreira, Marcelo, Ferreira, Celso, de Moraes, Íbis Ariana Peña, Silva, Deise Mara Mota, Barnabé, Viviani, de Araújo, Luciano Vieira, Santana, Heloísa Baccaro Rossetti, Monteiro, Carlos Bandeira de Mello
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 24-02-2021
Subjects:	autonomic nervous system coronavirus hospitals Psychology rehabilitation telerehabilitation virtual reality exposure therapy hospitals physical functional performance rehabilitation autonomic nervous system telerehabilitation virtual reality exposure therapy coronavirus
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Summary:	The new human coronavirus that leads to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) has spread rapidly around the world and has a high degree of lethality. In more severe cases, patients remain hospitalized for several days under treatment of the health team. Thus, it is important to develop and use technologies with the aim to strengthen conventional therapy by encouraging movement, physical activity, and improving cardiorespiratory fitness for patients. In this sense, therapies for exposure to virtual reality (VR) are promising and have been shown to be an adequate and equivalent alternative to conventional exercise programs. This is a study protocol with the aim of comparing the conventional physical therapy intervention with the use of a non-immersive VR software during COVID-19 hospitalization. Fifty patients hospitalized with confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 will be divided in two groups under physiotherapy treatment using conventional or VR intervention: Group A: participants with COVID-19 will start the first day of the protocol with VR tasks in the morning and then in the second period, in the afternoon, will perform the conventional exercises ( = 25) and Group B: participants with COVID-19 will start the first day with conventional exercises in the morning and in the second period, in the afternoon, will perform activity with VR ( = 25). All participants will be evaluated with different motor and physiologic scales before and after the treatment to measure improvements. Considering the importance of benefits from physical activity during hospitalization, VR software shows promise as a potential mechanism for improving physical activity. The results of this study may provide new insights into hospital rehabilitation. ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier: NCT04537858. Registered on 01 September 2020.
Bibliography:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 This article was submitted to Movement Science and Sport Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology Edited by: Michael Brach, University of Münster, Germany Reviewed by: Rumeysa Gunduz Can, Bielefeld University, Germany; Münster University, Germany; Juan De Dios Benítez Sillero, University of Cordoba, Spain
ISSN:	1664-1078 1664-1078
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyg.2021.622618