NCT06446856Completed
EVEN - Effects of VR on Empathy for Nature in Patients with Psychosis and Depressive Disorders
EVEN - Effects of VR on Empathy for Nature in Patients with Psychosis and Depressive Disorders / Effekte Von Virtueller Realität (VR) Auf Naturverbundenheit Und Empathie in Patient:innen Mit Psychotischen Und Depressiven Erkrankungen
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 20 Sept 2024
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Study group: Experimental study to evaluate empathy, compassion, and nature connectedness before and after an immersive virtual reality experience in patients with depressive disorder, patients with psychotic disorder and healthy control subjects (subjects between 18 and 65 years of age). Primary hypothesis: The increase in nature connectedness explored by virtual body ownership of a tree in VR differs depending on the health condition (schizophrenia, depression, healthy controls).
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 60 (actual)
- First submitted
- 25 May 2024
- Start date
- 27 May 2024
- Primary completion date
- 30 Jun 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Charite University, Berlin, Germany
- Diseases
- Schizophrenia
- NCT number
- NCT06446856
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Participants enrolled: 60
- From 27 May 2024 to the primary completion date, 30 Jun 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Other illness
- Primarily treatment-requiring eating disorder
- Acute dermatological condition affecting the hands that can distort skin conductivity measurements
- Control group: psychiatric or psychosomatic pre-diagnoses (except for the psychiatric active control group), other exclusion diagnoses corresponding to the patient group
Other
- Acute suicidality or danger to others
Who the study is looking for
- age: 18-65 years
- Inpatients and outpatients treated at the Psychiatric University Clinic of the Charité at St.
- Hedwig Hospital
- diagnosis of depressive disorder (ICD-10: F32.X, F33.X) or diagnosis of schizophrenia (F20.X) or healthy controls without psychiatric diagnosis
- able to provide written informed consent
Age in the registry: 18 years to 65 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatric University Hospital Charité at St. Hedwig Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Berlin | Germany | Unknown status |
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