The effect of virtual reality technology on preoperative anxiety in children: a Solomon four-group randomized clinical trial

Preoperative anxiety correlates positively with the amount of postoperative pain, analgesic use, and length of hospital stay. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of virtual reality technology on pre-operative anxiety in children. The study utilized Solomon four-group design inter...

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Published in:Perioperative medicine (London) 2019-06, Vol.8 (1), p.5-5, Article 5
Main Authors: Dehghan, Fateme, Jalali, Rostam, Bashiri, Hasan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Behavior
Blood pressure
Children
Clinical psychology
Clinical trials
Fear & phobias
Heart rate
Hospitalization
Medical exposure
Pain
Patients
Pediatrics
Postoperative pain
Preoperative anxiety
Psychotherapy
Stress
Surgery
Technology
Virtual reality
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Summary:Preoperative anxiety correlates positively with the amount of postoperative pain, analgesic use, and length of hospital stay. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of virtual reality technology on pre-operative anxiety in children. The study utilized Solomon four-group design intervention and a randomized clinical trial. A total of 40 candidates undergoing abdominal surgery were randomly divided into two groups. The pre-operative anxiety scale was assessed by a checklist containing a standardized Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale questionnaire. The interventional group had a 5-min exposure to the operating room using virtual reality technology, but the control group did not receive virtual reality exposure. The data were analyzed using SPSS-23 software. Non-parametric test for two independent groups showed no significant difference in baseline scores between interventional 1 and control 1 groups except for vocalization (  = 0.019), but there was a significant change in all subscales among intervention group 1 from baseline to post-test (  
ISSN:2047-0525
2047-0525
DOI:10.1186/s13741-019-0116-0