Effect of Virtual Reality Glasses Use During Episiotomy Repair Related

Selcuk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Labor Delivery; Midwifery

Treatments: Other: virtual reality glasses

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05641467

0000-0002-1344-0908

Details and patient eligibility

About

H1-1: Watching video with virtual reality glasses during episiotomy repair reduces the level of pain.

H1-2 Watching video with virtual reality glasses during episiotomy repair reduces the level of anxiety.

H1-3: Watching video with virtual reality glasses during episiotomy repair increases the level of satisfaction.

Enrollment: 82 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 42 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years and over,

  • Able to speak Turkish and express himself in Turkish,
  • There is no visual or hearing impairment,
  • Being open to communication, spiritually and mentally healthy,
  • 37- 42 weeks of gestation
  • Single pregnancy,
  • Primiparity,
  • Vaginal delivery,
  • Vertexpresentation
  • Media lateral episiotomy,
  • Uncomplicated newborn
  • Newborns between 2500 and 4000 g.
  • Those with episiotomy between 4-8 cm

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of obstetric or non-obstetric complications,
• Presence of bleeding requiring urgent measures,
• Administration of sedative drugs before and during episiotomy repair, spinal anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, pudendal block (except for local infiltration of the perineum),
• Lacerations other than episiotomy (anal sphincter injury or Grade 3 or 4 tear),
• Instrument delivery (with vacuum or forceps),
• Postpartum complications in newborns,
• Chronic disease (diabetes mellitus, thyroid disease and hypertension),
• Having a psychiatric diagnosis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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82 participants in 2 patient groups

Video will be watched with virtual reality glasses during episiotomy repair

Experimental group

Description:

Views of nature with virtual reality glasses during episiotomy repair.

Treatment:

Other: virtual reality glasses

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

It will be perform routine practice who the women in the control group.