Virtual Reality (VR) Tour to Reduce Preoperative Anxiety Before Anaesthesia

NCT ID: NCT04579354

Last Updated: 2021-03-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 84 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-09-07
• Study Completion Date: 2021-01-01

Brief Summary

Anxiety and apprehension are common among patients prior to surgery. This anxiety can lead to additional discomfort, increased pain sensation and increased stress symptoms. Virtual exposure has proven to be successful in exposure therapy for the treatment of the narrowest patients. Patients are not confronted with the real stimuli or situations that trigger the branches, but with virtual representations of them. Virtual reality (VR) makes it possible to create scenarios that would not be possible in reality because of the organisational, time or financial expenditure involved.The effectiveness of virtual stimulus exposure is well documented, especially in the case of object or situation-related fears in the context of specific phobias. It is therefore obvious that virtual stimulus exposure could also be suitable for minimising operation-associated fears.The research project described is designed to investigate the effect of virtual stimulus exposure on perioperative anxiety. For this purpose, a virtual tour of the operating setting has been created, which enables patients to explore the surroundings in detail by means of VR glasses.

Detailed Description

Anxiety and apprehension are common among patients prior to surgery. This anxiety can lead to additional discomfort, increased pain sensation and increased stress symptoms. Virtual exposure has proven to be successful in exposure therapy for the treatment of the narrowest patients. Patients are not confronted with the real stimuli or situations that trigger the branches, but with virtual representations of them. Virtual reality (VR) makes it possible to create scenarios that would not be possible in reality because of the organisational, time or financial expenditure involved.The effectiveness of virtual stimulus exposure is well documented, especially in the case of object or situation-related fears in the context of specific phobias. It is therefore obvious that virtual stimulus exposure could also be suitable for minimising operation-associated fears.The research project described is designed to investigate the effect of virtual stimulus exposure on perioperative anxiety. For this purpose, a virtual tour of the operating setting has been created, which enables patients to explore the surroundings in detail by means of VR glasses.

Conditions

Anaesthesia; Anxiety; Postoperative Pain

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Standardized Anaesthesia briefing

standardised anaesthesia information sessions, consisting of a detailed explanation of the anaesthesia procedure by the anaesthetist A specific information sheet is used to explain the procedure and the form of anaesthesia. This corresponds to the current procedure before an operation.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Virtual reality (VR) tour

standardised anaesthesia information sessions, consisting of a detailed explanation of the anaesthesia procedure by the anaesthetist A specific information sheet is used to explain the procedure and the form of anaesthesia.Subsequently, the patients are shown a virtual tour of the operation using VR glasses. This includes the way through the clinic to the operating theatre: Admission -\> inpatient preparation for the operation -\> administration of premedication -\> way to the operating theater -\> OP preparation (holding) -\> safe surgery

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

virtual reality tour

Intervention Type: OTHER

Patients will be guided via VR on their way through the hospital to the operating theater

Interventions

virtual reality tour

Patients will be guided via VR on their way through the hospital to the operating theater

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

• < 18 years
• cancer surgery
• pregnancy
• postoperative setting ICU
• neurosurgery
• Thorax surgery

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 100 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

RWTH Aachen University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

RWTH Aachen University

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Countries

Germany

References

Vogt L, Klasen M, Rossaint R, Goeretz U, Ebus P, Sopka S. Virtual Reality Tour to Reduce Perioperative Anxiety in an Operating Setting Before Anesthesia: Randomized Clinical Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2021 Sep 1;23(9):e28018. doi: 10.2196/28018.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 34252034 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

CTC-A 20-026

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

EK037/20

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id