Virtual Reality for Anxiety in Interventional Radiology Procedures
ConditionPreoperative Anxiety
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorIstituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
About this trial
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if virtual reality works to reduce anxiety in patients undergoing interventional radiology procedures. The main questions it aims to answer are:
Does virtual reality lower anxiety in patients undegoing minimally invasive procedures? Can it help the platient's compliance and operators' satisfaction? Researchers will compare virtual reality to usual preoperative care to see if virtual reality is effective.
Participants will:
Use virtual reality for 20 minutes before the intervention starts. Complete questionnaires before and after the procedure.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Indication to CT-guided biopsy in local anesthesia
Informed consent signature
Disqualifiers
Lack of patient consent to trial.
Lack of eligibility to perform CT-guided needle biopsy, or eligibility to perform the procedure but with administration of general anesthesia or sedation.
patients who do not speak Italian or English will be excluded;
patients with visual and/or hearing impairment;
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Virtual reality headset
Treatment groups
236 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov