NCT03578393

Efficacy of a Preoperative Virtual Reality Intervention as a Paediatric Anxiety Improvement Strategy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 241 (actual)
• Sponsor: Servei Central d'Anestesiologia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluate the effectiveness of the Virtual Reality Educational Program (RVEP) in the Paediatric Surgical Prehabilitation Unit to reduce the perioperative anxiety in children who undergo to elective surgery. Half of the patients will received the virtual reality program, and the other half will received de common treatment.

Detailed description

During preoperative time, anxiety is one of the most frequent problems in children, causing an important health problem as long with pain. In the surgical fields there are two especially stressful moments for the child, the first one is the parent´s separation, and the second is the anaesthetic induction, which in up to 42% of cases can be traumatic. Methods to treat paediatric anxiety have evolved in the last decades. Pharmacological therapy is one of the most used methods to treat anxiety in the immediate preoperative period, but complications and unwanted side effects are described. Due to this side effects, this study will evaluate the the effectiveness of the Virtual Reality Educational Program (RVEP) to reduce the perioperative anxiety in children.

Conditions

• Anxiety
• Virtual Reality

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Virtual Reality Educational Program	The study group, in addition to providing the usual information about the anaesthetic-surgical process, will visualize an educational video through virtual reality glasses, of a maximum duration of 5 minutes. The video's explanation will be adapted according to the age ranges. Once the video is finished, if there aren't doubts, the visit will be concluded.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-02
• Primary completion: 2022-04-15
• Completion: 2022-05-02
• First posted: 2018-07-06
• Last updated: 2022-05-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain