Virtual Reality (VR) to Reduce Preoperative Anxiety. (RVAQUA)

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Preoperative

Treatments: Device: Virtual reality (VR) session with AQUA module

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03905915

2016/20JUL/345

Details and patient eligibility

About

Most patients awaiting surgery show significant anxiety score which can be influenced by the fear of anesthesia or surgery but also by the context of care. These anxious patients will have more postoperative complications and can also develop chronic pain. The Virtual reality AQUA module induces hypnosis and is specially designed to reduce anxiety. The purpose of the study is to examine the effect of a virtual reality session on preoperative anxiety.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients undergoing scheduled orthopedic surgery with loco-regional anesthesia at Saint-Luc Hospital.
• Patients not following long-term psychotherapeutic treatment
• Patients not taking psychotropic medication
• free, informed and written consent signed by the investigator and the patient before the procedure.

Exclusion criteria

• patient not speaking French
• Patients with long-term psychotherapeutic treatment
• Patients taking psychotropic drugs
• patient blind and deaf

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

Preoperative virtual reality session

Other group

Description:

Amsterdam Anxiety score recorded before VR session is followed by a 15 min VR session and finally Amsterdam Anxiety score is recorded after VR session

Treatment:

Device: Virtual reality (VR) session with AQUA module