NCT05860192

Virtual Reality Mindfulness in Preoperative Anxious Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ospedale Regionale di Mendrisio · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this interventional study is to reduce preoperative anxiety by Virtual Reality mindfulness. Population: all adults, able to give their consent and scheduled for surgery with high preoperative anxiety defined by Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS) score \> 10. The study will recruit 100 patients in one university teaching hospital. The main question it aims to answer is: may mindfulness by Virtual Reality reduce preoperative anxiety in patients particularly anxious for the surgery? Participants will be asked to undergo to a single mindfulness virtual reality session before the surgery.

Conditions

• Test Anxiety
• Anxiety State
• Preoperative Period

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Virtual Reality	Use of this virtual reality headset to deliver a single mindfulness session
OTHER	application for mindfulness	Application used to realize mindfulness in virtual reality

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-15
• Primary completion: 2024-05-01
• Completion: 2024-06-01
• First posted: 2023-05-16
• Last updated: 2023-11-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland