TY - GEN
T1 - Virtual Reality for Informal Caregivers of Heart Failure Patients
T2 - 9th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, MIS4TEL 2019
AU - Durante, Angela
AU - Palombo, Antonella
AU - Acciarino, Adriano
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Informal Caregivers (CG) for heart failure patients are very important for preserving health status, preventing symptoms exacerbation and improving self-care. However, being a caregiver can be very burdensome, emotionally stressful and, often, associated with social interaction problems. Despite this, literature lacks in interventions aimed to reduce burden and improve wellbeing. The aim of this project is to reduce burden, improve mutuality and increase resilience with the use of immersive virtual reality. A concurrent mixed method design will be used to test the intervention with two experiments on volunteer CG. Open-ended questions will be used, meanwhile, to explore the impact of the experience. Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI), Mutuality Scale (MS) and Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (CDRISC-25) will be administered both pre and post experiments. On psychophysiological indexes, an analysis of variance will be performed (ANOVA). Data about burden, mutuality and resilience will be presented through data integration with the content analysis of the open-ended questions in a joint display.
AB - Informal Caregivers (CG) for heart failure patients are very important for preserving health status, preventing symptoms exacerbation and improving self-care. However, being a caregiver can be very burdensome, emotionally stressful and, often, associated with social interaction problems. Despite this, literature lacks in interventions aimed to reduce burden and improve wellbeing. The aim of this project is to reduce burden, improve mutuality and increase resilience with the use of immersive virtual reality. A concurrent mixed method design will be used to test the intervention with two experiments on volunteer CG. Open-ended questions will be used, meanwhile, to explore the impact of the experience. Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI), Mutuality Scale (MS) and Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (CDRISC-25) will be administered both pre and post experiments. On psychophysiological indexes, an analysis of variance will be performed (ANOVA). Data about burden, mutuality and resilience will be presented through data integration with the content analysis of the open-ended questions in a joint display.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85068721743
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-23884-1_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-23884-1_4
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783030238834
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 26
EP - 31
BT - Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, 9th International Conference, Workshops, 2019
A2 - Popescu, Elvira
A2 - Belén Gil, Ana
A2 - Lancia, Loreto
A2 - Simona Sica, Luigia
A2 - Mavroudi, Anna
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 26 June 2019 through 28 June 2019
ER -