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The Effect of Informative Animated Videos Watched Before Surgery on Anxiety and Fear in Children and Their Mothers

NCT07131982 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2026-03-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

It is important to prepare children and their mothers psychologically for surgery. There are many initiatives to achieve this psychological preparation, including interactive educational booklets for children and their families, hospital tours, educational multimedia applications, web-based preparation programs, virtual reality applications, virtual tours, therapeutic games, hospital clowning, and educational coloring books. Among these initiatives, the immersive features of virtual reality glasses are seen as an effective method for distracting children from negative stimuli. Informing children before surgery is effective in increasing their sense of control during medical and surgical interventions. The information provided before surgery effectively reduces pain and fear in children. This research aims to reduce the anxiety and fear of children undergoing surgery and their mothers, as well as to facilitate the child's recovery after surgery. Additionally, reducing the mother's anxiety and fear will enable her to provide higher-quality care to her child during the postoperative process.

This study will be conducted using a prospective randomized controlled study design, matching children according to gender, age, and minor surgical reason, to determine the effect of animated videos shown through virtual reality glasses before surgery on perioperative anxiety and fear in children and their mothers.

The objectives of the study are:

* The animated video to be shown will reduce children's and mothers' fear of surgery.
* The animated video to be shown will reduce children's and mothers' perioperative anxiety.

Conditions

  • Surgery in Children

Interventions

OTHER

Informative Animated Video to be Viewed with Virtual Reality Glasses

No study has been found in the literature evaluating the effect of animated videos shown to children through virtual reality glasses on mothers and children. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of animated videos shown through virtual reality glasses before surgery on perioperative anxiety and fear in children and their mothers.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • TC Erciyes University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
13 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-02-29
Primary Completion
2024-12-15
Completion
2024-12-15

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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