Virtual Reality Exergaming During Work Breaks in Office Employees | NCT07749196

NCT07749196

Overview

NCT ID: NCT07749196
Lead Sponsor: Akdeniz UniversityOTHER
Official Title: Virtual Reality Exergaming for Workplace Breaks: Acute Physical and Affective Responses, Leisure Experience, and Usability in Office Employees
Brief Summary: The goal of this trial is to learn how different exercise formats used during workplace breaks affect the immediate physical and emotional responses of office employees. It will also examine participants' leisure experience and the usability of virtual reality exercise.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

Do gamified virtual reality exercise, instructor-led virtual reality exercise, and traditional video exercise produce different changes in heart rate and perceived effort?

Do these exercise formats produce different changes in how pleasant or unpleasant and how activated participants feel?

Do the exercise formats differ in positive and negative experiences, flow, exercise enjoyment, and satisfaction with the activity?

Do the two virtual reality formats differ in system usability and virtual reality-related discomfort?

Researchers will compare the three exercise formats to identify differences in participants' immediate responses and experiences.

Participants will:

Complete three 10-minute exercise sessions on separate days and in a randomly assigned order

Take part in a gamified virtual reality boxing session, an instructor-led virtual reality exercise session, and a traditional video exercise session

Wear a heart rate monitor and complete brief questionnaires before and after the sessions

Status and Timeline

Status: Recruiting
Last Update Posted: Aug 6, 2026Actual
Start Date: Jul 29, 2026Actual
Primary Completion Date: Dec 30, 2026Estimated
Completion Date

Participation Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study: Adult (18-64)
Sexes Eligible for Study: All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Yes
Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Aged between 24 and 60 years

Being a healthy adult employed full-time in an administrative office-based position at Akdeniz University

Having worked full-time in the current administrative unit for at least one year

Having a low or moderate physical activity level according to the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form (IPAQ-SF)

Not engaging in regular exercise

Having no health condition that contraindicates participation in physical activity according to the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q)

Not having regularly used active virtual reality technologies within the previous six months

Exclusion Criteria:

A history of epilepsy, migraine, vertigo, or vestibular disorder

A history of dizziness, nausea, or similar discomfort during virtual reality exposure

Current use of antidepressants or medications that affect the central nervous system

A history of neurological, cardiovascular, or orthopedic disease, except for controlled hypertension

Pregnancy

Presence of a visual or hearing impairment

Study Plan

Study Type: Interventional
Phase: Not Applicable
Enrollment: 40Estimated
Primary Purpose: Basic Science
Allocation: Randomized
Interventional Model: Crossover Assignment
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Contacts and Locations

Central Contacts: Abdullah KayhanContact
akayhan@akdeniz.edu.tr

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Sequence 1: GVRE-SVRE-TVEExperimental

Participants assigned to this sequence will complete gamified virtual reality exergaming in Period 1, serious virtual reality exergaming in Period 2, and traditional video exercise in Period 3. Each intervention will be completed once in a separate session. Consecutive sessions will be separated by a washout period of at least 24 hours.