NCT04547322

Effect of Virtual Reality on Preoperative Anxiety

The Effect of Virtual Reality on Preoperative Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Colorectal Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 86 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mersin University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of virtual reality (VR) on the preoperative anxietyof patients undergoing colorectal surgery.

Detailed description

The sample of this study consisted of 86 patients in experimental and control groups. The experimental group received VR application in the preoperative period for 10 minutes. Anxiety level was assessed with the Anxiety Specific to Surgery Questionnaire (ASSQ) and measured with physiological responses of anxiety such as systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR) and peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) before and after VR application.

Conditions

• Preoperative Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	VR application group	During the transfer from the general surgery clinic to the operating room (3-5 minutes) and in the surgery waiting room, the VR aplication group were asked to wear a virtual reality headset (VR BOX 2) and headphones minimizing sound loss (Earpods with Apple Lightning Connector) that are compatible with mobile phones with IOS operating system. The VR headset and the headphones were controlled by a mobile phone (iPhone 7 Plus). The researchers had the patients watch three-dimensional videos (e.g. underwater world, museum trips, forest and park walks, beach trips, and space travel) for 10 minutes with their preferred background and relaxing music.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-01
• Primary completion: 2019-05-30
• Completion: 2019-05-30
• First posted: 2020-09-14
• Last updated: 2020-09-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)