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Effect of a Single Immersive Virtual Reality Session on Preoperative Surgical Fear and State Anxiety in Patients Awaiting Bariatric Surgery
Sponsor: Firat University
Summary
To determine whether a single 20-minute immersive VR nature session delivered in the immediate preoperative period reduces surgical fear and state anxiety in patients scheduled for bariatric surgery.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
20 Years - 60 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
120
Start Date
2025-03-10
Completion Date
2026-07-10
Last Updated
2026-08-19
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Experimental Group
Patients viewed 360° nature footage of forest, sea and landscape scenes, selected to be relaxing and to contain no threatening or surgery-related content and accessed through a publicly available video platform. The session lasted 20 minutes and was delivered by the researcher in the patient's own room, from which noise and interruptions were excluded. A duration of 20 minutes was chosen because relaxation-focused VR sessions of roughly 15 to 40 minutes are those most commonly reported to be effective and well tolerated, whereas longer exposures increase the risk of cybersickness . Post-test measures were administered 10 minutes after the session ended. Among the 60 patients who received the intervention, no adverse effects such as nausea, dizziness or disorientation were reported and no session was interrupted.
Locations (1)
Firat Universty
Elâzığ, Turkey (Türkiye)