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Influence of Natural Images on Patients' Anxiety in the Waiting Rooms of Imaging Ward

NCT ID: NCT03266523

Last Updated: 2017-12-27

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

418 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-10-03

Study Completion Date

2017-12-15

Brief Summary

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VERTIM study aims to evaluate the influence of different environments of imaging waiting rooms on the anxiety felt by patients before MRI or CT scans. For this, four environments (neutral/standard; and nature "green", "sea", and "zen") will be set up in MRI and CT waiting rooms.

Detailed Description

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Each year, the Medical Imaging Unit of the University Hospital of Bordeaux (CHU Bordeaux) receives 80,500 patients for CT or MRI scans in usual care. The length of waiting, the environment of the waiting room, the reasons for the examination are factors that increase the levels of anxiety during waiting and but also during early examination.

Previous studies have shown that the integration of nature (real as well as artificial) is likely to decrease the level of anxiety. Before implementing a multicentre and randomised trial, a pilot study is necessary to assess the feasibility of the procedure, to test the relevance of the tools, to identify the influence of socio-cultural and socio-demographic characteristics on anxiety's level.

For this, the present study will be conducted over the same period of the year in order to avoid seasonality biases. The study will take place over 8 weeks, during which MRI or scanner patients will be exposed either to the neutral environment (standard environment of the waiting room) or to one of the 3 environments (wall posters representing the nature ("green", "sea", "zen")).

There is no specific intervention assigned to the study participants, i.e. the patients will receive one of the four environments as part of routine medical care, and a researcher studies the effect of this environment on anxiety's level. Every week, one environment will be set up in the MRI or scanner waiting room and the study will be proposed to all eligible patients present in this room. Fifty patients are expected each week so that 100 patients per environment and equally distributed between the MRI and scanner waiting rooms are expected.

Conditions

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All Conditions for Which a CT or MRI Exam Can be Required

Keywords

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CT MRI Anxiety-state Anxiety State-Trait

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Control

The CONTROL (neutral) environment corresponds to the standard environment of the imaging waiting rooms

No interventions assigned to this group

Zen

The ZEN environment will represent a clean, minimalist nature

Natural images in imaging waiting rooms

Intervention Type OTHER

Standard environment for hospital imaging waiting rooms

Green

The GREEN environment will represent rural landscapes, undergrowth

Natural images in imaging waiting rooms

Intervention Type OTHER

Standard environment for hospital imaging waiting rooms

Sea

The SEA environment will represent lakes, ponds, seaside

Natural images in imaging waiting rooms

Intervention Type OTHER

Standard environment for hospital imaging waiting rooms

Interventions

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Natural images in imaging waiting rooms

Standard environment for hospital imaging waiting rooms

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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Neutral

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* patient 18 yrs and older;
* patients in MRI or scanner's waiting room awaiting one of these 2 exams;
* patients not objecting to answer questionnaires;
* patient covered under social security

Exclusion Criteria

* patient \<18yrs old;
* patients with hearing and visual impairments;
* patients unable to answer questionnaires;
* patients awaiting for other exams than MRI or scanner;
* legally protected patient
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University Hospital, Bordeaux

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Hopital Pellegrin

Bordeaux, , France

Site Status

Countries

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France

Other Identifiers

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CHUBX 2016/49

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id