Effects of Virtual Reality and Nature Sounds on Pain and Anxiety in Women Having Cesarean Section

Ondokuz Mayıs University

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Caesarean Section; Nursing; Anxiety; Pain; Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Treatments: Device: Virtual Reality Glasses

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06668428

OMU-TURKMEN-2024/367

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will be conducted to determine the effects of virtual reality application on pain and anxiety in postpartum women after cesarean section. It will be applied to women who have had a cesarean section and who volunteered to participate in the study and were randomly assigned to intervention (n=40) and control (n=40) groups in a faculty hospital and a state hospital in Turkey. The use of virtual reality glasses will be taught to the postpartum women in the intervention group. After the initial mobilization, the postpartum women will be shown a nature view video with virtual reality glasses (VRG) accompanied by nature sounds for 20 minutes. The aim of this application is to enable women to watch nature images more effectively accompanied by nature sounds, thus allowing them to focus on the images and sounds, distract them, relax and remove them from the tension of the current environment. The application will be performed with the women in a semi-recumbent position and without sleeping. The same application will be applied to each woman and the glasses will be disinfected with Dermosept surface disinfectant, which provides cold sterilization, before the application. No application will be applied to the control group; only the general routine maintenance of the hospital will be performed. Data will be collected by the researcher through face-to-face interviews based on the statements of the women after cesarean section.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Volunteering to participate in the study
• Being over 18 years of ageBeing able to read and write in Turkish
• Giving birth at term, having a single, live and healthy baby
• The baby being with the mother
• Having a healthy/risk-free pregnancy
• Having had spinal anesthesia.

Exclusion criteria

• Having a diagnosed psychiatric disease,
• Having a mental disability and communication problem,
• Having a vision or hearing problem,
• Developing complications during or after a cesarean section,
• Having any obstacles to postpartum mobilization.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group with Standard Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group will not receive any intervention other than routine care after cesarean section (It is planned to provide verbal information about the procedure and brief written information about the procedure.)

Control Group Using Virtual Reality Glasses

Experimental group

Description:

The researcher will inform the women in the intervention group about the research, introduce the virtual reality glasses after obtaining written informed consent, and teach them how to use the glasses. Afterwards, the data collection form, State Anxiety Scale, and visual analog scale rating scale for pain are planned to be applied face to face to both groups. After the first mobilization, the postpartum women will watch a nature view video with virtual reality glasses (VRG) accompanied by nature sounds for 20 minutes. Each woman will watch the same video. Pain and anxiety will be re-evaluated after the application. The same application will be applied to each woman, and the glasses will be disinfected with Dermosept surface disinfectant, which provides cold sterilization, before the application.

Treatment:

Device: Virtual Reality Glasses