NCT06760689

Brief Title- Virtual Reality Glasses in Gynecologic Cancer

The Effect of Virtual Reality Glasses Used in Gynecologic Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy on Treatment Compliance and Anxiety Level.

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 118 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Çankırı Karatekin University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

It was planned to determine the effect of virtual reality glasses used in female patients diagnosed with gynecological cancer and receiving chemotherapy on treatment compliance and anxiety level. The study has a single-center, randomized controlled experimental design.

Detailed description

When cancer is diagnosed, a process of uncertainty begins for the individual. When an individual associates their illness with death, they often consider the situation to be frightening, painful, complex, and ambiguous, which can lead to mental confusion. ). In these emotional fluctuations, studies have revealed that a large proportion of patients experience various mental problems such as anxiety and anxiety disorders, coordination disorders and adherence to treatment, both due to the burden of the disease and the side effects of treatment. Emotional negativities felt by the patient may cause the recovery process to be prolonged, the quality of life to decrease, and the length of hospital stay to increase when in a hospital environment. In order to prevent such negativities, it is very important to identify the symptoms of anxiety and depression in cancer patients at an early stage and to initiate appropriate treatments. The development and application of the latest technology in the field of health offers new and non-invasive approaches to cancer-related symptom management. Virtual reality (SG), a new era in the management of symptoms, is the combination of fiction, imagination and reality, which is capable of real reflective animation at the same time under the control of many devices. Virtual reality (SG), a new era in the management of symptoms, is the combination of fiction, imagination and reality, which is capable of real reflective animation at the same time under the control of many devices.In a clinical study, it was concluded that distracting videos (tennis, boxing video, etc.) watched with virtual reality glasses had a beneficial therapeutic effect on edema.As a result of the one-week virtual reality application awareness training conducted on 50 women with ovarian cancer who experienced anxiety, depression and cancer-related fatigue during chemotherapy in Beijing, China, it was recorded that these symptoms improved significantly.When the literature was reviewed, it was predicted that the application of virtual reality glasses in cancer patients in our country was limited, and this study was planned to determine the effect of virtual reality glasses used in female patients diagnosed with gynecological cancer and receiving chemotherapy on the level of compliance and anxiety.

Conditions

• Gynecologic Cancers
• Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	virtual reality glasses	One of the videos chosen by the patient will be opened in the virtual reality glasses and will be played for 20 minutes.
OTHER	scale	The patient received standard nursing care. Scales were filled in after the course.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-12-01
• Primary completion: 2025-03-31
• Completion: 2025-07-31
• First posted: 2025-01-07
• Last updated: 2025-01-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)