Virtual Reality as a Perioperative Teaching Tool for Families

NCT ID: NCT05008107

Last Updated: 2024-02-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 114 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-10-22
• Study Completion Date: 2023-07-27

Brief Summary

Commonly, families and providers have turned to internet-based resources to provide insight as to the perioperative experience. Though there is a large amount of information that is available on the internet, medical information on the internet is of highly variable quality and the information may be conflicting or inaccurate. It is hard for even the savvy well-educated patient and family to navigate and sift through all the information available. Therefore, generic web-based information does not necessarily decrease patient and caregiver anxiety. As an alternative, the investigators propose an interactive teaching tool utilizing virtual reality that may provide a cost-efficient, content-rich supplement to the traditional phone or internet-based patient education. Virtual reality (VR) will be provided to families of patients undergoing ambulatory pediatric surgery. VR will provide personalized education to patients and their families about the entire continuum of the child's surgical experience. This will range from the hospital registration, the peri-operative experience, including the separation of the child from the parent in the pre-operative area and the anesthetic induction process, and the post-operative hospital ward. The virtual reality (VR) tool will also review the in-hospital post-operative recovery process. The patient will be shown this either via an oculus headset or using their own smartphone device. In addition to improving a parent's comprehension of what their child will experience, the investigators expect that the virtual reality tool may also improve patient and caregiver satisfaction with the overall perioperative experience.

Conditions

Surgical Procedure, Unspecified; Tonsil Hypertrophy

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: OTHER
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Virtual Reality

Virtual reality (VR) will be provided to families of patients undergoing ambulatory pediatric surgery. VR will provide personalized education to patients and their families about the entire continuum of the child's surgical experience. This will range from the hospital registration, the peri-operative experience, including the separation of the child from the parent in the pre-operative area and the anesthetic induction process, and the post-operative hospital ward.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Virtual reality

Intervention Type: OTHER

Using VR goggles to watch peri-operative instructional video.

Control

Families will receive standard pre-operative instructions.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Virtual reality

Using VR goggles to watch peri-operative instructional video.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Other Intervention Names

VR

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Children undergoing tonsillectomy/adenotonsillectomy ± ear tubes in the ambulatory setting

Exclusion Criteria

• Non-English speaking (VR program is currently only offered in English)
• Inpatient
• Unable to effectively use VR (blind, severe motion sickness)
• History of procedure in the operating room within the past year
• Having a combination/additional procedure

• Minimum Eligible Age: 6 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Nationwide Children's Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Brittany Willer

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

STUDY00001402

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id