Shilpa Jabeen, S (2016) Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Therapy upon Insomnia among Schizophrenic Clients. Masters thesis, Apollo College of Nursing, Chennai.
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Abstract
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: A pre experimental study to assess the effectiveness of virtual reality therapy upon insomnia among schizophrenic clients at selected home for schizophrenic clients, Chennai. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY: 1. To assess the level of insomnia among schizophrenic clients before and after virtual reality therapy. 2. To assess the effectiveness of virtual reality therapy by comparing the level of insomnia among schizophrenic clients before and after virtual reality therapy. 3. To determine the level of satisfaction in schizophrenic clients regarding Virtual Reality Therapy. 4. To find out the association between selected variables and level of insomnia among schizophrenic clients before and after Virtual Reality Therapy. The study was carried out upon 30 schizophrenic clients Chennai. Tools such as Demographic variable proforma, Clinical variable proforma, Insomnia severity index and Rating scale on level of satisfaction of virtual reality therapy were used by the researcher to collect the data. The validity was obtained from various experts and reliability of the tool was cronbach’s alpha r = 0.78. The main study was conducted after the pilot study. The level of insomnia was assessed before and after virtual reality therapy using insomnia severity index in the group of schizophrenic clients. Virtual reality therapy was administered every day morning 5 – 7 minutes for the period of two weeks for each schizophrenic clients. After two weeks, the level of insomnia was assessed by using insomnia severity index among the schizophrenic clients. Then the level of satisfaction on virtual reality therapy was also assessed by using satisfactory scale. The data obtained were analysed using Descriptive and Inferential statistics. MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE STUDY: The study results that a majority of the schizophrenic patients were aged between 31-40 years (90%), female (73.3%), un married (66.6%), Hindus (90%), with >20,000 monthly incomes (66.6%). This study indicates that majority of the schizophrenic clients did not have any medical illness (83.3%), most of their onset of illness is between 20-30 yrs of age (50%), duration of hospitalization is 2-3 yrs (43.3%) and did not practice any relaxation therapy (66.6%). The study indicates that all of them had moderate clinical insomnia before virtual Reality therapy, whereas after virtual reality therapy, none of them (0%) had significant insomnia. These results can be attributed to the effectiveness of virtual reality therapy. Hence the null hypothesis Ho1 was rejected. The insomnia score in schizophrenic clients, before the therapy was high (M= 18.3, SD = 4.18) and after therapy, it found to be less (M = 3.03, SD = 2.68), which is statistically proven to be significant (P<0.001). Hence, the null hypothesis Ho1 was rejected. The reduction in the insomnia after the therapy can be attributed to the Virtual reality therapy. Therefore, it can be used as an effective intervention for the clinical treatment of psychological disorder. The researcher found that, the majority of the schizophrenic clients were highly satisfied (86%) with virtual reality therapy. It is found that there was no significant association between the level of insomnia and the selected variables of the schizophrenic patients. Hence the null hypothesis was retained. RECOMMENDATIONS: 1. The study could be conducted on larger samples for better generalization. 2. The study could be replicated in other setting like the community and hospitals etc. 3. A time series design can be conducted with an interval of 2, 4 and 6 months to assess the long term effects of virtual reality therapy upon insomnia. 4. A study can be conducted to assess the effectiveness of virtual reality therapy on psychological wellbeing and quality of life among the schizophrenic clients.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Additional Information: | (Reg.No.)301430852 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Effectiveness ; Virtual Reality Therapy ; Insomnia ; Schizophrenic Clients. |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Psychiatric Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Subramani R |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Apr 2018 05:15 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Nov 2018 14:43 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/7174 |
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