NCT06280222

The Effectiveness of Virtual Reality on Anxiety Reduction in Women Undergoing Elective Egg Cryopreservation.

Virtual Reality (VR)-Based Intervention to Improve Pre-operative Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Elective Oocyte Cryopreservation: a Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A randomized trial assessing the effectiveness of virtual reality exposure prior to an oocyte retrieval procedure in terms of anxiety level .

Detailed description

Eligible women, undergoing elective egg freezing, will be offered to participate in the study, and sign a consent form. The patients will be randomized into 2 groups: 1. No intervention (routine management). 2. Exposure to scenery video, as a VR (virtual reality) session. All women will be addressed prior to the procedure, while they are waiting, and upon consent will be asked to state their VAS (visual analogue scale) anxiety score and to fill the STAI (The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory questionnaire.) Vital signs (Heart rate, Blood pressure) will be recorded upon arrival. Patients who were allocated to the VR arm will watch a 20-minute scenery video and following the session before entering the procedure will be asked to rate their VAS score and answer the STAI questionnaire once again. vital signs will be recorded again. After recovery all women will fill the STAI questionnaire, VAS score and vital signs before they will be discharged.

Conditions

• Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	The VR instrument - Oculus Quest 2	Patients in the interventional group will watch 20-minute scenery movies in the VR instrument before entering the oocyte retrieval procedure.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-11-15
• Primary completion: 2024-11-15
• Completion: 2025-02-01
• First posted: 2024-02-28
• Last updated: 2024-02-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel