The Effect of the Operating Room Environment on Patients Experienced With Virtual Reality Glasses Before Surgery

Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Simulation; Nursing Care; Virtual Reality; Clinical Practice

Treatments: Other: Operating Room Environment Experienced by Patients Wearing Virtual Reality Glasses Before Surgery The Effect of Surgery Experience on Surgical Fear Level and Care Perceptions

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06666465

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Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was planned as a randomized controlled experimental study with a pretest-posttest design to examine the effect of the operating room environment experience of preoperative patients using virtual reality glasses on the patients' preoperative surgical fear level and care perceptions.

Full description

Today, virtual reality is used in many areas such as medical diagnosis and treatment by reflecting three-dimensional images animated on the computer as if it were a real experience. Procedural pain, facilitating interventional procedures with a game-based video demonstration in children, and outpatient surgeries such as circumcision surgery can be used to provide patients with this "real world" experience, its use has also become widespread in areas such as wound care and in nursing education due to the increase in malpractice cases . In line with patient experiences, the benefits of virtual reality technology have been documented in the literature and its use in nursing care is increasing . Informing the patient to improve the quality of care, managing pain during painful interventional procedures, and reducing surgery-related fear reduces wound healing and hospital stay, especially in surgical patients . In the literature, patients' pre-operative problems such as lack of knowledge about the surgery, operating room environment, surgical procedures, etc. It is reported that they experience anxiety and fear related to many factors. It also emphasizes the importance of informing the patient before surgery within the scope of Enhance Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) procedures (Joshi & Kehlet, 2019). In line with ERAS protocols, preoperative education and information have been proven to provide positive postoperative recovery. Informing the patient about the operating room environment is the most important element in accelerating surgical recovery. The operating room environment can be seen as a stress factor for patients. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to examine the effect of informing patients about the operating room environment, supported by visuals, on the patient's fear and perceptions of care. In addition, it is thought that this information and experience will affect the patient's vital signs and that the patient's need for premedication will also change. It is thought that the results of this study will positively affect patient outcomes by improving the quality of patient care.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being 18 years or older
• Agreeing to participate in the research
• Having elective cholecystectomy surgery
• Knowledge of Turkish and no communication barriers
• Having surgery for the first time and not having seen the operating room environment

Exclusion criteria

• Being 18 years of age or younger
• Refusal to participate in the research
• Having undergone surgery and having seen the operating room environment before Not knowing Turkish and having any communication barrier

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 1 patient group

Operating Room Environment Experienced by Patients

Experimental group

Description:

This study was planned as a randomized controlled experimental study in the pre-test post-test design in order to examine the effect of the operating room environment experience of patients using virtual reality glasses before surgery on the level of surgical fear experienced by patients before surgery and their perception of care.

Treatment:

Other: Operating Room Environment Experienced by Patients Wearing Virtual Reality Glasses Before Surgery The Effect of Surgery Experience on Surgical Fear Level and Care Perceptions