Effectiveness of Virtual Reality-enhanced Interventions on Preoperative Anxiety in Adults Undergoing Elective Surgery
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Virtual Reality.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Preoperative Anxiety. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Hong Kong
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Official Title: Effectiveness of Virtual Reality-enhanced Interventions on Preoperative Anxiety in Adults Undergoing Elective Surgery: A 3-arm Randomised Controlled Trial
Overview
Brief Summary: Preoperative anxiety is a common phenomenon in surgical patients, with a pooled global prevalence of 48%. Surgical patients with preoperative anxiety may negatively impact their psychological health and surgical outcomes. Recent studies have revealed the promising effects of virtual reality-enhanced interventions to improve preoperative anxiety symptoms among adults undergoing elective surgery. There is a lack of interventional studies to compare and evaluate the co-designed preoperative virtual reality-enhanced interventions in adult surgical patients. This study aims to examine the effects of co-designed virtual reality educational video and virtual reality distraction video on preoperative anxiety symptoms, vital signs, Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), and postoperative anxiety compared to usual care. This study will contribute by evaluating evidence-based, user-centered VIPA that may be effective for improving preoperative anxiety among adult surgical patients.
Interventions
- Other Virtual Reality
The Virtual Reality-enhanced Interventions on Preoperative Anxiety for adults undergoing elective surgery (VIPA) was developed based on theoretical basis, systematic review evidence, and qualitative study.
Primary outcome measures
- Preoperative anxiety [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate post-intervention, Day of surgery]
Secondary outcome measures (6)
- Heart rate [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate post-intervention, Day of surgery]
- Blood pressure [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate post-intervention, Day of surgery]
- Temperature [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate post-intervention, Day of surgery]
- Life satisfaction [Time frame: Baseline, Immediate post-intervention, Day of surgery, Post-operative day 7]
- Evaluation of Virtual reality-enhanced interventions questionnaire [Time frame: Immediate post-intervention]
- Postoperative anxiety [Time frame: Post-operative day 7]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Age aged ≥18 years old
- Surgical patients attending Nurse Pre-anaesthetic Assessment Clinic (NPAC)
- American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) physical status ASA I or ASA II
- Able to communicate in Chinese
Exclusion criteria
- Patients who have a cognitive, communication or physical impairment precluding their ability to complete the study
- Patients who are prone to epilepsy or other neurological conditions
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Hong Kong · 1 center
- Kwong Wah Hospital — Kowloon
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07379450 · CIRB-2025-224-5