Virtual Reality for Patient Informed Consent in Neurosurgery

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-75
SponsorUniversity Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

About this trial

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate benefits of VR (virtual reality)-based patient informed consent in neurosurgery regarding subjective patient comprehension, patient-doctor relationship and anxiety.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Patients between the age of 18 and 75

Surgical clipping for intracranial aneurysm, resection of vascular malformations

Craniotomy and Resection of intracranial tumors that can be segmented for VR

Disqualifiers

Visual or auditory impairment with no sufficient aid

Patient that had VR informed consent for surgery before

Psychiatric illness, cognitive impairment

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • VR-based patient informed consent

Treatment groups

34 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups