Virtual Reality to Teach, Improve Outcomes, and Engage (VIRTUE): Virtual Reality to Improve Gluten-Free Diet Knowledge in Pediatric Celiac Disease

Study Purpose

1. Specific Aim

(1) is to assess both the immediate and longer term impact of VIRTUE on the patient's GFD knowledge compared to standard of care (SOC) dietary education.

2. Specific Aim

(2) is to determine the impact of VIRTUE on patient QoL, symptomatology, and Celiac biomarkers (tissue transglutaminase antibodies, deamidated gliadin peptide IgA, deamidated gliadin peptide IgG, and total serum IgA).

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms	Yes
Study Type An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes. Searching Both is inclusive of interventional and observational studies.	Interventional
Eligible Ages	8 Years - 18 Years
Gender	All

More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients with confirmed diagnosis of CD per American or European Guidelines.

- Ages 8-18 years of all genders.

Exclusion Criteria:

-Significant Developmental Delays

Trial Details

Trial ID: This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.	NCT04440501
Phase Phase 1: Studies that emphasize safety and how the drug is metabolized and excreted in humans. Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data. Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs. Phase 4: Studies occurring after FDA has approved a drug for marketing, efficacy, or optimal use.	N/A
Lead Sponsor The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.	Stanford University
Principal Investigator The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.	N/A
Principal Investigator Affiliation	N/A
Agency Class Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.	Other
Overall Status	Not yet recruiting
Countries
Conditions The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.	Celiac Disease in Children

Additional Details

The global burden of Celiac Disease (CD) is estimated to be 1% in Western countries and 0.7-1.4% of the global population.The only treatment for CD is a strict, lifelong Gluten Free Diet (GFD). However, dietary adherence is the main barrier against disease control. Whereas experiential learning, learning through experience, has been associated with greater impact in achieving desired nutritional outcomes in pediatric populations. Replicating the environments in which patients would make food choices in clinic is not feasible. Previous research, in addition to preliminary results indicate that Virtual reality (VR) may act as an effective precursor to the real world by providing a safe and immersive learning environment. As such, the investigators seek to investigate how VR use to Teach, Improve Outcomes, and Engage (VIRTUE) will affect patient GFD knowledge, QoL, symptoms, and CD biomarkers. The central hypothesis will tested through the following specific aims: 1. Specific Aim

(1) is to assess the immediate and long-term impact of VIRTUE on children's GFD knowledge compared to SOC education.

The investigators hypothesize that VIRTUE with SOC education, will improve children's GFD knowledge by 10-20%, opposed to SOC alone. 2. Specific Aim

(2) is to determine the impact of VIRTUE on patient QoL.

The investigators hypothesize that VIRTUE with SOC education, will improve children's QoL scores, opposed to SOC alone. 3. Specific Aim

(3) is to determine the impact of VIRTUE on decline of CD biomarkers (tissue transglutaminase antibodies and deamidated gliadin peptide IgG).

The investigators hypothesize that VIRTUE with SOC education, will reduce levels of CD biomarkers faster, compared to SOC alone.

Arms & Interventions

Arms

No Intervention: Standard education (Control)

Standard education regarding the gluten free diet by the nutritionist will be provided.

Experimental: Virtual Reality Program to teach gluten free diet

Virtual Reality Goggles and education regarding the gluten free diet will be provided. This group will receive VIRTUE, and watch a VR educational video, and play Chaos Café, which will be administered by a research team member. This group will be prescribed to take home the VIRTUE headset and play modules for 15 minutes per week until the 6-8 month follow up. The VIRTUE technology will track frequency of game playing to control for adherence to the prescription.

Interventions

Device: - Virtual Reality Goggles to provide education a regarding the gluten free diet.

To watch and participate in a virtual reality educational experience regarding the gluten free diet.

Contact Information

This trial has no sites locations listed at this time. If you are interested in learning more, you can contact the trial's primary contact:

Nasha Khavari, MD,MPH

nkhavari@stanford.edu

6504986295

For additional contact information, you can also visit the trial on clinicaltrials.gov.

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