ArticleCureus2023
Augmented Reality Education Experience (AREduX): An Augmented Reality Experience and Experiential Education Medium to Teach Empathy to Healthcare Providers and Caregivers of Persons Living With Dementia.
Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Enhancing Rehabilitation and Healthcare Training Using Augmented Reality: Lessons From the AREduX Prototype.Cureus · 2026Article
- Ethical Considerations When Designing and Implementing Immersive Realities in Nursing Education.Cureus · 2024Article
- Immersive Technology Approaches to Cultivate Empathy in U.S. Medical Schools: A Narrative Review (2015-2025).Journal of medical extended realityArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Previous research indicates that greater empathy by healthcare providers (HCPs) and informal caregivers leads to better care and improved patient satisfaction and outcomes for persons living with dementia (PLWD). Since few programs exist to train HCPs to develop empathy, we created the augmented reality education experience (AREduX), a proof-of-concept prototype that employs augmented reality (AR) to simulate the physical and cognitive symptoms that PLWD experience. This unique experience simulates the effects of dementia for training purposes with the goal of promoting more empathetic responses from HCPs and informal caregivers when attending to a PLWD. This technical report provides an overview of the five phases of the research program, conceptualization, development and design, usability testing and prototype updating, testing of refined prototype including measuring participants' empathy pre/post interaction with the AREduX, and analysis and dissemination of results, but focuses on Phase 2, development and design. We believe that the AREduX will substantially contribute to the scientific literature on the development of empathy, address the knowledge gap that exists regarding evidence-based understanding of empathy as a construct, and contribute to further recommendations aligned with implementing AR as an experiential education method to enhance empathy among HCPs and caregivers of PLWD.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.