Vırtual Realıty Glasses' Traumatıc Bırth Perceptıon and Bırth Preferences

NCT06810102 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: fıratuniversty
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 109
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Birth is an irreplaceable experience in an individual's life, and can have critical health consequences for both the mother and the baby. Healthcare professionals, especially nurses, play an important role in the management, support and education of this process. Nursing students' knowledge and experience about labor is an important factor that affects both their professional development and future patient care. Traditional education methods may have limited impact on healthcare professionals in learning about the birth process. Instead, the use of virtual reality (VR) technology offers students the opportunity to experience the birth process realistically. In a virtual reality environment, nursing students can understand the physiological stages of birth, its effects on the mother and baby, and the emotional aspects of the birth process more deeply. This has the potential to change traumatic perceptions of the birth process, and can also have an impact on birth preferences. The perception of traumatic birth is shaped by individuals' negative thoughts and feelings about their birth experiences. These perceptions emerge as an important factor affecting future birth preferences and health care application status beyond the birth process. During nursing education, shaping these perceptions of students and providing them with positive experiences is of critical importance. Experiencing labor with virtual reality can reduce students' negative perceptions of birth and help them make more conscious choices about birth options.

Conditions

NURSING STUDENTS

Keywords

birth preferences.; virtual reality glasses; perception of traumatic birth

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• traumatic perception of birth

  It is thought that showing the birth process to nursing students through virtual reality will reduce the score they will receive on the traumatic birth perception scale and reduce the perception of traumatic birth.

  1 month

• Birth preferences

  It is thought that by showing the birth process to nursing students in virtual reality, birth preferences will change and the rate of cesarean births will decrease.

  1 month

Study Arms (2)

experimental

EXPERIMENTAL

Before the lesson, students will watch a video of the actual birth. The video is available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRjOO6V83Uw) and was edited and voiced by the researcher to its final form. The video includes observations starting before birth, the birth itself and the early postpartum period.

Other: VIRTUAL REALITY GLASSES

control

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention will be made

Interventions

VIRTUAL REALITY GLASSES OTHER

There will be a video screening

experimental

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Gender Eligibility Details: Women's perception and preferences of childbirth
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Being a woman
• Having taken a gynecology course

You may not qualify if:

• Having witnessed any labor before,
• Having any psychiatric diagnosis,
• Having any neurological disease (such as epilepsy) that will cause seizures,
• Having any diagnosis that causes dizziness in the patient, such as vertigo.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Firat University: lead
• Inonu University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

NURDİLAN

Elâzığ, Elâzığ, 23100, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: phd of woman health nursing, asoc prof.

Model Details: The research will be conducted as a randomized controlled experimental model.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 20, 2024
• First Posted: February 5, 2025
• Study Start: December 30, 2024
• Primary Completion: January 10, 2025
• Study Completion: January 20, 2025
• Last Updated: February 5, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-01

Locations

TU (1)