NCT03993080

Virtual Reality Relaxation to Decrease Dental Anxiety

Virtual Reality Relaxation to Decrease Dental Anxiety in Primary Dental Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 277 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Turku · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 120 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim is to apply short-term virtual reality relaxation to examine if it is effective in reducing pre-operative dental anxiety in primary health care using an RCT.

Detailed description

Randomized controlled single-center trial with two parallel arms: Virtual Reality Relaxation (VRR) and Treatment As Usual (TAU) in a public oral health care unit. VRR group receiving a 1-3.5 minute 360° video immersing them in peaceful virtual landscape with audio features and sound supporting the relaxing experience. TAU groups remaining seated for 3 minutes in similar setting.

Conditions

• Dental Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Virtual reality relaxation	1-3.5 minute 360° videos

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-15
• Primary completion: 2019-02-27
• Completion: 2019-02-27
• First posted: 2019-06-20
• Last updated: 2019-06-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland