Impact of Virtual Reality Before Oocytes Retrieval on Anxiety and Pregnancy Rate

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Unknown

Conditions: in Vitro Fertilization; Anxiety; Virtual Reality

Treatments: Device: Virtual reality

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03064061

2016/20JUL/346

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of a session of virtual reality (VR) with the objective of lowering the anxiety level on the clinical pregnancy rate following an In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure. Indeed, anxiety in relation to infertility happens frequently and over time, can become stressful for our patients. This level of stress influences the effect of the infertility treatment. Reducing anxiety levels could promote the ability of the patients to face this stress and promote a greater chance of pregnancy in that context.

Enrollment: 600 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 42 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult patients benefiting from an oocytes retrieval as part of their IVF at Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc.
• Simple IVF / IVF Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with long-term psychotherapeutic treatment
• Patients taking psychotropic drugs
• patient blind and deaf

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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600 participants in 2 patient groups

Virtual Reality Neutral

Sham Comparator group

Description:

neutral VR session before oocytes retrieval

Treatment:

Device: Virtual reality

Virtual reality Anxiety

Active Comparator group

Description:

VR session with the goal of reducing anxiety before oocytes retrieval

Treatment:

Device: Virtual reality