Clinical trial NCT05008107: Virtual Reality as a Perioperative Teaching Tool for Families
Official title: Virtual Reality as a Perioperative Teaching Tool for Families: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Surgical Procedure, Unspecified
Tonsil Hypertrophy
Lead sponsor: Nationwide Children's Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-08-17
Enrollment: 114
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 6
Maximum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Commonly, families and providers have turned to internet-based resources to provide insight as to the perioperative experience. Though there is a large amount of information that is available on the internet, medical information on the internet is of highly variable quality and the information may be conflicting or inaccurate. It is hard for even the savvy well-educated patient and family to navigate and sift through all the information available. Therefore, generic web-based information does not necessarily decrease patient and caregiver anxiety. As an alternative, the investigators propose an interactive teaching tool utilizing virtual reality that may provide a cost-efficient, content-rich supplement to the traditional phone or internet-based patient education. Virtual reality (VR) will be provided to families of patients undergoing ambulatory pediatric surgery. VR will provide personalized education to patients and their families about the entire continuum of the child's surgical experience. This will range from the hospital registration, the peri-operative experience, including the separation of the child from the parent in the pre-operative area and the anesthetic induction process, and the post-operative hospital ward. The virtual reality (VR) tool will also review the in-hospital post-operative recovery process. The patient will be shown this either via an oculus headset or using their own smartphone device. In addition to improving a parent's comprehension of what their child will experience, the investigators expect that the virtual reality tool may also improve patient and caregiver satisfaction with the overall perioperative experience.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Children undergoing tonsillectomy/adenotonsillectomy ± ear tubes in the ambulatory setting

Exclusion Criteria:

* Non-English speaking (VR program is currently only offered in English)
* Inpatient
* Unable to effectively use VR (blind, severe motion sickness)
* History of procedure in the operating room within the past year
* Having a combination/additional procedure

Primary outcomes:
measure: Patient Pre-op Anxiety Score
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Parent Pre-op Anxiety Score
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: Patient Post-op Anxiety Score
timeFrame: Immediately prior to discharge
measure: Parent Post-op Anxiety Score
timeFrame: Immediately prior to discharge
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Parent Satisfaction Score
timeFrame: Immediately prior to discharge
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Columbus
country: United States
facility: Nationwide Children's Hospital
state: Ohio
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