Virtual Reality for Caregiver Assembly, Relief, Empowerment, and Support (VR-CARES)

Part of paid clinical trials in San Diego, California.

Sponsor
Rendever, Inc.
Study ID
NCT07430371
Status
Recruiting
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Conditions

  • Caregiver Social Support
  • Dementia Caregiver
  • Direct Care Workers
  • In-Home Care
  • Peer Support

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Accepted

Interventions

  • Rendever VR Social Engagement Platform — BEHAVIORAL
    Participants will be trained how to use Rendever's core VR platform (Engage) and encouraged to use the core social platform independently and with their clients for \~4-8 weeks to build rapport and engage their clients doing fun activities, traveling, visiting personally important places to each other in the VR platform.
  • VR-CARES Platform — BEHAVIORAL
    Participants will use Rendever's newly designed VR-CARES support platform, developed with insights from the first focus group, for 8 weeks. Participants engage with other direct care workers in a virtual community support setting intended to provide supportive resources and content for group social activities and improve wellbeing and job satisfaction for direct care workers.

Study Details

The VR-CARES project is an innovative, collaborative effort that invites dementia care professionals into the design process of a virtual reality platform seeking to mitigate their work-related burden and social isolation by cultivating a virtual community of support. The co-created, caregiver-specific VR platform will serve as a safe, communal space where caregivers can remotely connect with their peers, share fun experiences together, access support, learn self-care and build resilience within a supportive virtual network to enhance their social and mental health and job satisfaction. Central to VR-CARES in the principle of user-led innovation, ensuring that the technology not only serves but is informed and successfully adopted by the very individuals it intends to benefit, an important standard for empathetic and inclusive technology in healthcare.

Key Dates

Start date
Mar 11, 2026
Status verified
Apr 2026
Primary completion
Oct 31, 2026
Completion
Oct 31, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment
30 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER

Arms

  • Experimental: Direct Care Worker Cohort

Primary Outcome Measure

System Usability Scale (SUS) Score [ Time Frame: Assessed at mid-point (T2 - 8 weeks, post Rendever social engagement VR platform) and end of study (T3 - 16 weeks, post VR-CARES caregiver support platform). T2 vs. T3 comparison provides usability data for each intervention phase. ]

Central Contacts

Locations (6)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Comfort Keepers Home CareSan DiegoCalifornia92120
Vice President of Development
888-609-8997
Rendever, Inc.BostonMassachusetts02109
Jennifer Stamps, PhD
[email protected]
904-476-1350
Right at HomeBrightonMichigan48116
President, Right at Home of Central Michigan
[email protected]
888-997-4724
Right at HomeEast LansingMichigan48823
President, Right at Home of Central Michigan
[email protected]
888-997-4724
Right at HomeNoviMichigan48375
President, Right at Home of Central Michigan
[email protected]
888-997-4724
Right at HomeOwossoMichigan48867
President, Right at Home of Central Michigan
[email protected]
888-997-4724

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