Virtual Reality Relaxation to Decrease Dental Anxiety

University of Turku

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Anxiety

Treatments: Device: Virtual reality relaxation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03993080

HEL 2018-008940

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to apply short-term virtual reality relaxation to examine if it is effective in reducing pre-operative dental anxiety in primary health care using an RCT.

Full description

Randomized controlled single-center trial with two parallel arms: Virtual Reality Relaxation (VRR) and Treatment As Usual (TAU) in a public oral health care unit. VRR group receiving a 1-3.5 minute 360° video immersing them in peaceful virtual landscape with audio features and sound supporting the relaxing experience. TAU groups remaining seated for 3 minutes in similar setting.

Enrollment: 277 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 120 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• attending for dental treatment
• consenting
• able to complete Finnish questionnaire without assistance
• age 18 years or older

Exclusion criteria

• those not meeting inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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277 participants in 2 patient groups

Virtual reality relaxation

Experimental group

Description:

Virtual reality relaxation using virtual landscape and audio features and sound

Treatment:

Device: Virtual reality relaxation

Treatment as usual

No Intervention group

Description:

Seated in similar environment as experimental group for same time