Effect of Virtual Tour of the Operating Theater on Fear and Anxiety of Preoperative Children
Preoperative Anxiety
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Preoperative Anxiety focused on measuring Child,fear,anxiety,operating theater tour,virtual reality
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Children are included in the study if they are aged between 6 and 12 years; have surgery for the first time; have outpatient surgery and only one operation at a time; could speak Turkish.
Exclusion Criteria:
Children will exclude in the study if they have genetic or congenital disease, have a chronic disease, and have previous surgery
Sites / Locations
- Surgical clinic of Manisa Celal Bayar University Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
Group 1: VR- Operating Theater Tour Group
Group 2: VR- Documentary Film Group
The 7-minute operating theatre tour, which describes the preparation process for the surgery, covers the following process: 6-12-year-old children's leaving their room, entering the operating theatre, and meeting the surgery team after they are taken to the operating theatre. The tour ends in the postoperative recovery unit. The actual operating theatre tour also will include information about how and when the child would wear the surgical gown, and how he or she would go to the operating theatre. In order to shoot the operating theatre tour scenes in the most appropriate way, all the procedures to be applied to the children to be operated will observe by the researcher in the pre-, intra- and post-operative periods. The scenario created for the scene shots will reviewe by experts in the field of filming and the final version will decide. The children who will have surgery will watch the real operating theatre tour with the cardboard VR headset.
The children in this group will watch the 5-minute musical documentary film featuring farm animals suitable for their age group with a cardboard VR headset. This group will form as a parallel group to determine whether the VR-Operating theatre Tour or the VR- Documentary Film is more effective.