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Tolerance of immersive head-mounted virtual reality among older nursing home residents

INTRODUCTION: Virtual Reality (VR) is a tool that is increasingly used in the aging population. Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) are stereoscopic vision devices used for immersive VR. Cybersickness is sometimes reported after head-mounted display (HMD) VR exposure. Cybersickness severity and anxiety sta...

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Autores principales: Rmadi, Hajer, Maillot, Pauline, Artico, Romain, Baudouin, Edouard, Hanneton, Sylvain, Dietrich, Gilles, Duron, Emmanuelle
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10394641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37538272
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1163484
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author Rmadi, Hajer
Maillot, Pauline
Artico, Romain
Baudouin, Edouard
Hanneton, Sylvain
Dietrich, Gilles
Duron, Emmanuelle
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Artico, Romain
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Duron, Emmanuelle
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description INTRODUCTION: Virtual Reality (VR) is a tool that is increasingly used in the aging population. Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) are stereoscopic vision devices used for immersive VR. Cybersickness is sometimes reported after head-mounted display (HMD) VR exposure. Cybersickness severity and anxiety state reflect VR low tolerance. We aimed to evaluate HMD VR tolerance among older nursing home residents through cybersickness and anxiety state. METHODS: A total of 36 participants were included in this preliminary study, 33 of whom (mean age: 89.33 ± 5.48) underwent three individual HMD VR sessions with three different contents. Cybersickness occurrence and severity were scored by the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire (SSQ) after each session. Anxiety state was assessed by the State–Trait Anxiety Inventory form Y-A before and after each session. Anxiety trait (using State–Trait Anxiety Inventory form Y-B) was also evaluated before and after the experiment. In total, 92% (33/36) of patients completed all three sessions, of which 61% (20/33) did not report any cybersickness symptoms (SSQ = 0). Six participants reported significant cybersickness (defined by an SSQ score ⩾10) in at least one session. DISCUSSION: Only two participants stopped the study after the first exposure because of cybersickness. Age, cognitive function, anxiety trait, and well-being were not associated with cybersickness. The mean anxiety state decreased significantly from pre- to post-session. This immersive HMD VR experience was well tolerated among nursing home dwellers. Further larger studies in this population aiming to identify CS determinants are needed in order to use HMD VR on a standard basis.
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spelling pubmed-103946412023-08-03 Tolerance of immersive head-mounted virtual reality among older nursing home residents Rmadi, Hajer Maillot, Pauline Artico, Romain Baudouin, Edouard Hanneton, Sylvain Dietrich, Gilles Duron, Emmanuelle Front Public Health Public Health INTRODUCTION: Virtual Reality (VR) is a tool that is increasingly used in the aging population. Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) are stereoscopic vision devices used for immersive VR. Cybersickness is sometimes reported after head-mounted display (HMD) VR exposure. Cybersickness severity and anxiety state reflect VR low tolerance. We aimed to evaluate HMD VR tolerance among older nursing home residents through cybersickness and anxiety state. METHODS: A total of 36 participants were included in this preliminary study, 33 of whom (mean age: 89.33 ± 5.48) underwent three individual HMD VR sessions with three different contents. Cybersickness occurrence and severity were scored by the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire (SSQ) after each session. Anxiety state was assessed by the State–Trait Anxiety Inventory form Y-A before and after each session. Anxiety trait (using State–Trait Anxiety Inventory form Y-B) was also evaluated before and after the experiment. In total, 92% (33/36) of patients completed all three sessions, of which 61% (20/33) did not report any cybersickness symptoms (SSQ = 0). Six participants reported significant cybersickness (defined by an SSQ score ⩾10) in at least one session. DISCUSSION: Only two participants stopped the study after the first exposure because of cybersickness. Age, cognitive function, anxiety trait, and well-being were not associated with cybersickness. The mean anxiety state decreased significantly from pre- to post-session. This immersive HMD VR experience was well tolerated among nursing home dwellers. Further larger studies in this population aiming to identify CS determinants are needed in order to use HMD VR on a standard basis. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10394641/ /pubmed/37538272 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1163484 Text en Copyright © 2023 Rmadi, Maillot, Artico, Baudouin, Hanneton, Dietrich and Duron. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Rmadi, Hajer
Maillot, Pauline
Artico, Romain
Baudouin, Edouard
Hanneton, Sylvain
Dietrich, Gilles
Duron, Emmanuelle
Tolerance of immersive head-mounted virtual reality among older nursing home residents
title Tolerance of immersive head-mounted virtual reality among older nursing home residents
title_full Tolerance of immersive head-mounted virtual reality among older nursing home residents
title_fullStr Tolerance of immersive head-mounted virtual reality among older nursing home residents
title_full_unstemmed Tolerance of immersive head-mounted virtual reality among older nursing home residents
title_short Tolerance of immersive head-mounted virtual reality among older nursing home residents
title_sort tolerance of immersive head-mounted virtual reality among older nursing home residents
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10394641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37538272
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1163484
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