Effective Empathy Training for Dementia Caregivers Using Virtual Reality
Abstract:
The study uses HTCVive and DayDream for participants to experience the behavioral feelings of dementia patients (first-person). Can first-person experience enhance caregivers understand dementia patients? Findings indicated that 44 subjects reached 93.9% agreement in HTCVive and the learning effect of dementia was significantly improved (p = .000 ***). Post-test of 79 participants wearing DayDream reached 89.1% consistency and it achieved a significant improvement in learning effect of dementia (p = .000 ***).
Keywords:
empathy, dementia caregivers, virtual reality
pages:
343-346
Year:
2019
Published in:
2nd Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2019
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