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A Virtual Reality-Based App to Educate Health Care Professionals and Medical Students About Inflammatory Arthritis: Feasibility Study.
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- Transforming Healthcare: A Comprehensive Review of Augmented and Virtual Reality Interventions.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy and Mechanisms ofCurrent rheumatology reviews · 2024Pooled it
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- Rheumatology in the digital health era: status quo and quo vadis?Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2024Review
- ["Rheuma (be-)greifen"- A multimodal teaching concept to improve rheumatology education for medical students].Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2024Article
- Virtual Reality Therapy for the Management of Chronic Spinal Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR serious games · 2024Review
- Cinematic rendering in rheumatic diseases-Photorealistic depiction of pathologies improves disease understanding for patients.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- Virtual Simulation in Undergraduate Medical Education: A Scoping Review of Recent Practice.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundInflammatory arthritides (IA) such as rheumatoid arthritis or psoriatic arthritis are disorders that can be difficult to comprehend for health professionals and students in terms of the heterogeneity of clinical symptoms and pathologies. New didactic approaches using innovative technologies such as virtual reality (VR) apps could be helpful to demonstrate disease manifestations as well as joint pathologies in a more comprehensive manner. However, the potential of using a VR education concept in IA has not yet been evaluated.
objectiveWe evaluated the feasibility of a VR app to educate health care professionals and medical students about IA.
methodsWe developed a VR app using data from IA patients as well as 2D and 3D-visualized pathological joints from X-ray and computed tomography-generated images. This VR app (Rheumality) allows the user to interact with representative arthritic joint and bone pathologies of patients with IA. In a consensus meeting, an online questionnaire was designed to collect basic demographic data (age, sex); profession of the participants; and their feedback on the general impression, knowledge gain, and potential areas of application of the VR app. The VR app was subsequently tested and evaluated by health care professionals (physicians, researchers, and other professionals) and medical students at predefined events (two annual rheumatology conferences and academic teaching seminars at two sites in Germany). To explore associations between categorical variables, the χ
resultsA total of 125 individuals participated in this study. Among them, 56% of the participants identified as female, 43% identified as male, and 1% identified as nonbinary; 59% of the participants were 18-30 years of age, 18% were 31-40 years old, 10% were 41-50 years old, 8% were 51-60 years old, and 5% were 61-70 years old. The participants (N=125) rated the VR app as excellent, with a mean rating of 9.0 (SD 1.2) out of 10, and many participants would recommend use of the app, with a mean recommendation score of 3.2 (SD 1.1) out of 4. A large majority (120/125, 96.0%) stated that the presentation of pathological bone formation improves understanding of the disease. We did not find any association between participant characteristics and evaluation of the VR experience or recommendation scores.
conclusionsThe data show that IA-targeting innovative teaching approaches based on VR technology are feasible.
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