NCT05401539

Effect of Virtual Tour of the Operating Theater on Fear and Anxiety of Preoperative Children

Status unknown NA Last updated 2 June 2022

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Cardboard VR in Preoperative Anxiety in 105 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

1 June 2022

Primary endpoint
30 September 2022

30 December 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Celal Bayar University
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	supportive care
Enrollment	105
Start date	1 June 2022
Primary completion	30 September 2022
Estimated completion	30 December 2022
Sites	1 location across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• Cardboard VR

Conditions studied

• Preoperative Anxiety — all drugs for Preoperative Anxiety →

Sponsor

Celal Bayar University

Who can join

Adults 6 to 12, any sex, with Preoperative Anxiety. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Experiences such as hospitalization, medical or surgical procedures are stressful, complex and threatening, especially for children and their families. Among the first crisis symptoms that children are faced with are illness, hospitalization and surgery anxiety. There is a direct relationship between the fear and anxiety experienced by children and their parents during the pre-operative processes. Therefore, ensuring not only the psychological but also physiological preparation of both the children and their parents before the surgery is of great importance. In the hospital, applying distraction methods appropriate for the age period of children and conveying procedural information to them simultaneously are difficult and challenging. In such situations, in clinical settings, virtual reality technology can be used at any time and place without requiring extra workforce to eliminate or reduce children's fear and anxiety. Virtual reality applications, as a distracting therapeutic method, are a fun, calming, safe, accessible, effective and acceptable intervention that can be used for the management of acute pain, fear and anxiety in pediatric patients. Such applications can affect children visually, aurally and contextually. Because they are different from common distraction methods used by children such as reading books, playing with toys, watching television or movies, playing a two-dimensional video game or game console. Virtual reality (VR) is used to distract children's attention to reduce fear and anxiety before surgery. A VR tour of the operating theater can provide a realistic experience for children. The aim in this study was to investigate the effect of an actual operating theater tour which is watched by children aged 6-12 years wearing a 3D virtual headset on their fear and anxiety.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.