The WOW Project (WOW): Wonders Of The World Through Virtual Reality for Hospitalized Children

Part of paid clinical trials in Palo Alto, California.

Sponsor
Stanford University
Study ID
NCT06911996
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Virtual Reality

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
5 Years - 17 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • Virtual Reality — BEHAVIORAL
    After obtaining written consent, participants will be asked to complete a brief demographic survey and pre-intervention surveys (content knowledge, and wellbeing surveys). They will then be equipped with a VR headset, Quest 3 (Meta, Inc., Menlo Park, CA) displaying the educational field trip. After the VR field trip, participants will participate in a complementary hands-on science experiment. At the conclusion of the experiment, patients will be asked to complete the post intervention surveys (i.e awe, content knowledge, and wellbeing surveys). Additionally, for the first 20 participants, 15 participants will be randomly selected and asked to participate in a 5 open-ended question qualitative interview regarding engagement of the lesson. Audio will be recorded via zoom.

Study Details

Hospitalized pediatric patients are unable to leave the hospital to engage in traditional learning environments. Patients often feel depressed, disconnected from learning, and socially withdrawn. The Stanford Chariot Program proposes a partnership with the Palo Alto Unified Hospital School at Stanford Children's Health to reignite patients' emotional well-being through learning. The WOW Project aims to use virtual reality (VR) to travel with hospitalized children to the Wonders of the World (WOW). Combining this immersive learning modality with complementary hands-on activities at the bedside, the investigators will transport them from their hospital room into a nurturing virtual environment to stimulate their emotional, mental, and social growth while they are physically healing. The investigators will evaluate their overall joy and awe of learning by using standardized emotional scales.

Key Dates

Start date
Jul 10, 2025
Status verified
Oct 2025
Primary completion
Aug 31, 2026
Completion
Aug 31, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
100 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Arms

  • Experimental: Virtual Reality Group
    Participants will all receive the VR intervention and will be instructed to wear an Oculus Quest 3 headset (Meta, Inc., Menlo Park, CA) and participate in virtual field trips from Engage (David Whelan). Brink Traveler (Akin Bilgic) and Wander (John Entwistle) that are specifically designed to reignite the joy and awe of learning.

Primary Outcome Measure

Assess the impact of VR-based field trips on the feeling of awe of the pediatric inpatient population [ Time Frame: immediately after intervention ]

Central Contacts

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital StanfordPalo AltoCalifornia94304
Thomas J Caruso, MD, MEd
[email protected]
650-723-5728

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