The Effect of Virtual Reality Glasses Application on Pain, Anxiety, and Patient Satisfaction

Ataturk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Prostate

Treatments: Device: Virtual Reality Glasses

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05509114

Rumeysa

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study was conducted in a randomized controlled manner to determine the effect of applying virtual reality glasses during transrectal prostate biopsy on pain, anxiety and patient satisfaction.The study was completed with a total of 70 patients, 35 in the intervention group and 35 in the control group, for whom it was decided to perform sample transrectal prostate biopsy for the first time.

Full description

Although prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer in men, according to 2018 data published by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, it is the second most common after lung cancer worldwide.The prevalence of prostate cancer is increasing rapidly worldwide. However, when prostate cancer is diagnosed early, the survival rate increases with the effect of the treatment methods applied. Digital rectal examination (DRE), prostate specific antigen (PSA) level, and transrectal ultrasonography-guided prostate biopsy (TRUS-Bx) methods are used for diagnosis. Transrectal prostate biopsy process; It is one of the most frequently performed urological procedures for definitive diagnosis in patients with a PSA value above the normal limit and abnormal DRE findings. Transrectal prostate biopsy is a golden diagnostic tool in prostate cancer because it is typically well tolerated, treatable, and has a low risk of major complications. However, in addition to the advantages of this procedure, it also has disadvantages such as causing pain and discomfort in patients.Prostate biopsy procedure affects patients not only physiologically but also psychologically. Interventional procedures cause patients to experience the highest level of anxiety. With the development of technology, developments in health care have brought the concept of patient satisfaction to the fore. Applications made in line with patient expectations in order to increase the quality of care make a significant contribution to the perception of nursing care. One of these applications, virtual reality glasses, make patients feel like they are in a different world; increases patient satisfaction. Nurses, who are members of the profession who plan and manage care, because they spend longer time with the patient; They play an active role in defining pain and anxiety by using pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods. When examining the literature, there was no study examining the effect of virtual reality application on the pain level of patients during the transrectal prostate biopsy procedure, but no study examining the effect on the level of anxiety and patient satisfaction. In this study; It is aimed to increase patient satisfaction by reducing the pain and anxiety of the patients with virtual reality applied during the transrectal prostate biopsy procedure. It is thought that the results of this study can make an important contribution to both the literature and practice.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Those between the ages of 18-65,
• Those who volunteer and accept to participate in the research,
• Transrectal prostate biopsy procedure performed for the first time,
• No communication problem,
• Cognitive level scales are suitable for application,
• Patients without vision or hearing problems were included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Leaving work voluntarily,
• Patients whose cognitive level scales were not suitable for application were excluded from the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 1 patient group

Virtual Reality Glasses

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention introductory information formula was face-to-face by researchers from the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-I, STAI-II), the Scale of Patient Perception of Hospital Experience with Nursing Care (PPHEN) and Visual Analog Scale for Pain (VAS) Before starting the research, a preliminary application plan is determined with 10 virtual virtual applications. It is not included in the applications made in the pre-application. Before watching the video, patients are informed about how to train, how to do it, and detailed information about the video. When the patient is removed from the service and in the left lateral position, 2 minutes before the assistant physician, the virtual is about to take place. The video was watched after about 10-15 minutes until the process was finished. After the procedure, STAI-I, STAI-II, PPHEN and VAS were reapplied by the researchers.

Treatment:

Device: Virtual Reality Glasses