NCT04544618

Evaluation of a Pre-surgical Virtual Reality Simulation for Cancer Surgery Patients

Preoperative Virtual Reality for Cancer Surgery Patients: A Feasibility and Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Manitoba · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will pilot test and explore the feasibility of a virtual reality simulation of the operating room environment to reduce anxiety/distress in cancer surgery patients. Study objectives are to evaluate recruitment and data collection procedures, outcome measures, participant feedback on the virtual reality operating room intervention, and the inclusion of a treatment as usual group, and effects of the intervention on symptoms of anxiety/distress. Results of this study will inform the design of an upcoming larger-scale RCT to assess the efficacy of this intervention

Conditions

• Anxiety State

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Virtual reality operating room simulation	The virtual reality simulation will begin with the participant sitting on a hospital bed wearing the virtual reality headset and holding the controllers. Participants will be oriented to the environment and provided with an explanation of how to navigate through the simulation (for approximately 2 minutes). Next, participants will explore the virtual operating room for a minimum of 5 minutes, or longer if desired. Following the exploration period, the scripted portion of the simulation will be begin. Here, participants will be taken through the mock anesthetic induction process (the virtual anesthetist will speak to the patient and walk them through the steps and the virtual nurse will assist). The simulation ends after the virtual oxygen mask is placed over the participant's mouth and the screen darkens.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-01
• Primary completion: 2024-01-31
• Completion: 2024-01-31
• First posted: 2020-09-10
• Last updated: 2024-02-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada