Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03201640
VR for Preoperative Anxiety in Children
Virtual Reality for Educating and Reducing Preoperative Anxiety in Children - A Randomised Control Trial
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 39 (actual)
- Sponsor
- The Hospital for Sick Children · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 6 Years – 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
All of the tools currently available for preoperative preparation of children either use a third person approach (i.e., use media whereby they watch a video or look at pictures of another child receiving an anesthetic), provide tours at some time previous to the operation date, or are shown the equipment that they will encounter during their anesthetic. No preoperative programme currently allows the child to experience the entire chain of events from leaving the preoperative preparation area (and their parents), walking to the operating area, being initially prepared for and receiving anesthesia and recovering from anesthesia, in real time and from a first person perspective. As such the investigators are carrying out this study to assess whether virtual reality preoperative preparation is effective in reducing anxiety at induction of anesthesia.
Detailed description
The investigators' goal in this study is to investigate the effects of virtual reality preoperative preparation on anxiety in children at induction of anesthesia. The hypothesis is that utilisation of this novel 1st person immersive preparatory method will lead to an enhanced understanding of what will happen to the child (in addition to what the environment looks and sounds like) when they have their anesthetic. The investigators believe this enhanced understanding and preparation will lead to the reduction in anxiety levels before and during the induction of anesthesia, and will also lead to a reduction in postoperative negative behaviour disorders.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | slideshow | Participants will be shown a slideshow showing a child being prepared for surgery |
| BEHAVIORAL | virtual | Participants will be shown an immersive virtual reality preparation for surgery |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2017-09-18
- Primary completion
- 2019-04-30
- Completion
- 2019-04-30
- First posted
- 2017-06-28
- Last updated
- 2021-12-17
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Canada
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03201640. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.