Background: The new human coronavirus that leads to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) has spread rapidly around the world and has a high degree of lethality. In more severe cases, patients remain hospitalized for several days under treatment of the health team. Thus, it is important to develop and use technologies with the aim to strengthen conventional therapy by encouraging movement, physical activity, and improving cardiorespiratory fitness for patients. In this sense, therapies for exposure to virtual reality (VR) are promising and have been shown to be an adequate and equivalent alternative to conventional exercise programs.Aim: This is a study protocol with the aim of comparing the conventional physical therapy intervention with the use of a non-immersive VR software during COVID-19 hospitalization.Methods: Fifty patients hospitalized with confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 will be divided in two groups under physiotherapy treatment using conventional or VR intervention: Group A: participants with COVID-19 will start the first day of the protocol with VR tasks in the morning and then in the second period, in the afternoon, will perform the conventional exercises (n = 25) and Group B: participants with COVID-19 will start the first day with conventional exercises in the morning and in the second period, in the afternoon, will perform activity with VR (n = 25). All participants will be evaluated with different motor and physiologic scales before and after the treatment to measure improvements.Conclusion: Considering the importance of benefits from physical activity during hospitalization, VR software shows promise as a potential mechanism for improving physical activity. The results of this study may provide new insights into hospital rehabilitation.Trial Registration:ClinicalTrials.gov, identifier: NCT04537858. Registered on 01 September 2020.
ObjectiveTo establish the prevalence of physical, cognitive and psychiatric
disabilities, associated factors and their relationship with the qualities
of life of intensive care survivors in Brazil.MethodsA prospective multicenter cohort study is currently being conducted at 10
adult medical-surgical intensive care units representative of the 5
Brazilian geopolitical regions. Patients aged ≥ 18 years who are
discharged from the participating intensive care units and stay 72 hours or
more in the intensive care unit for medical or emergency surgery admissions
or 120 hours or more for elective surgery admissions are consecutively
included. Patients are followed up for a period of one year by means of
structured telephone interviews conducted at 3, 6 and 12 months after
discharge from the intensive care unit. The outcomes are functional
dependence, cognitive dysfunction, anxiety and depression symptoms,
posttraumatic stress symptoms, health-related quality of life,
rehospitalization and long-term mortality.DiscussionThe present study has the potential to contribute to current knowledge of the
prevalence and factors associated with postintensive care syndrome among
adult intensive care survivors in Brazil. In addition, an association might
be established between postintensive care syndrome and health-related
quality of life.
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