The Effect of Virtual Reality Glasses on Fear of Birth, Delivery Time and Non-Stress Test Results in Pregnancy in the Process of Labor

NCT05723666 | Unknown

• 2 other identifiers: Mine ORUÇKamile KABUKCUOĞLU
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 128
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

From the gestation period, labor affects the mother due to both physical and emotional changes. Mothers experience new emotions and experiences since their admission to the delivery room. With the progression of the mother's physiological changes and labor in the delivery room, new situations arise. Although the birth process is a complex process, it can vary from person to person. In the delivery room, many preparations and applications are made for labor. A positive pregnancy and childbirth will affect both the motherhood process and later life periods. Every day, new applications are added to the applications made for the mother to leave the labor satisfied. Virtual reality (VR) glasses application has features such as relaxation, distraction, reducing focus on pain, painful and stressful applications. When the literature is examined, SG glasses are generally focused on pain in the field of women's health. In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the effect of watching videos with SG glasses on the fear of childbirth, NST results and delivery time by using the distraction feature of the mother in the delivery room. The study included mothers who came to Antalya Training and Research Hospital delivery room for vaginal delivery, aged 18-35, had no hearing and vision problems, had an uneventful pregnancy, and had no chronic disease in the fetus or mother. A total of 128 mothers with 64 experimental (32 primiparous, 32 multiparous), 64 control groups (32 primiparous, 32 multipara) and a total of 128 mothers will be included in the study by power analysis. For the randomization of this study, which was planned as a randomized controlled trial, "simple randomization method" stratified sampling, which was admitted to the delivery room and met the inclusion criteria, was used. In the study, mothers in the experimental group will be shown a nature video with SG glasses during the NST procedure. No intervention other than routine delivery room care will be applied to the control group. At the end of the study, it is expected that the level of fear of birth will decrease, the NST will be reactive, and the duration of labor will decrease with the relief of the mothers' SG glasses.

Conditions

Virtual Reality

Keywords

virtual reality; fear of childbirth; non-stress test; time of delivery

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• physiological parameter

  reactive NST,

  48 hour

• Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ) Version A and B

  low fear of childbirth

  48 hour

• physiological parameter

  positive effects on labor time

  2 hour

Study Arms (2)

Group watching video with virtual reality glasses

EXPERIMENTAL

A nature video will be watched with virtual reality glasses.

Other: Group watching virtual reality glasses

Group not watching video with virtual reality glasses

NO INTERVENTION

Virtual reality glasses will not be watched. An intervention will not be applied.

Interventions

Group watching virtual reality glasses OTHER

A nature video will be watched with virtual reality glasses.

Group watching video with virtual reality glasses

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 20 Years - 35 Years
• Gender Eligibility Details: women
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Verbal communication,
• Between the ages of 20 and 35,
• ·-No limitation of hearing and vision,
• Gestational week between 35-42,
• Vaginal delivery planned,
• Do not have any risk factors (premature rupture of membranes, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, etc.) during pregnancy,
• No defined cardiovascular disease, anomaly, IUGR (intrauterine growth retardation) in the fetus,

You may not qualify if:

• Diagnosed with risky pregnancy,
• Having obstetric complications,
• Have a previous negative birth history,
• Having a psychiatric diagnosis,
• Have a systemic disease,
• Those who watch the video for less than 20 minutes,
• Those who went to the cesarean operation,
• Those with positive or symptomatic COVID-19 PCR test

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Akdeniz University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Akdeniz University

Antalya, 07100, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer

Model Details: There are two Groups with parallel properties. The first group is the experimental group using virtual reality glasses. The second group is the control group without intervention.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 21, 2022
• First Posted: February 13, 2023
• Study Start: January 20, 2022
• Primary Completion: June 30, 2022
• Study Completion: January 30, 2023
• Last Updated: February 13, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)