Virtual Reality Glasses and Stress Ball on Distress and Pain Arteriovenous Fistula Cannulation

Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hemodialysis Complication

Treatments: Other: Stress ball; Other: Virtual reality glasses

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06920121

2023/08

Details and patient eligibility

About

Effects of Virtual Reality Glasses and Stress Ball on Distress and Pain During Arteriovenous Fistula Cannulation. The research was conducted as a randomized experimental study with a pre-test - post-test control group.

Full description

Beginning 1-2 minute before the start of the procedure, the patients will be watched (5 minutes) with an android mobile phone inserted into the Cardboard Super Flex Binoculars Glasses.

A stress ball will be applied to the patient 1-2 minutes before the start of the procedure.

Enrollment: 77 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Be over 18 years old,
• Be able to speak and understand Turkish,
• Have the cognitive ability to answer the data collection tools,
• Be willing to participate in the study,
• Participate in a hemodialysis program three days a week,

Exclusion criteria

• Having a communication problem (hearing, language, understanding, etc.),
• Having a psychiatric diagnosis (To be checked from medical records),
• Having failed AVF cannulation at the first attempt,
• Having any signs of infection such as redness, swelling, open wound in the area where the procedure will be performed,
• Having used a sedative within the last 8 hours,
• Having used any painkillers before the procedure on the same day,

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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77 participants in 3 patient groups

Virtual reality glasses

Experimental group

Description:

Virtual reality glasses Beginning 2-3 minute before the start of the procedure, the patients will be watched (5 minutes) with an android mobile phone inserted into the Cardboard Super Flex Binoculars Glasses, with a music background, licensed product.

Treatment:

Other: Virtual reality glasses

Stress ball

Experimental group

Description:

Before AVF cannulation, patients will be given a round, colored, medium-hard, high-quality silicone squeezable ball (the arm without vascular access will be used). In order to avoid implying that the procedure is inherently stressful, patients will be given the name squeeze ball when they are given information about the stress ball application. Patients will be instructed to continue squeezing and relaxing the stress ball (squeezing and relaxing once, counting from one to three) for 5 minutes before and throughout the AVF cannulation procedure. Patients will be instructed to focus their attention on the stress ball and focus on squeezing the stress ball.

Treatment:

Other: Stress ball

Control grups

No Intervention group

Description:

Routine maintenance will be applied