The Effect of Preoperative Patient Preparation Video Shown Through Virtual Reality Goggles on Empathy Levels in Nursing Students

NCT07573384 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: ATADEK 2025-20/752
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 50
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study was planned to evaluate the effect of a preoperative patient preparation video, shown to nursing students via virtual reality glasses, on the development of empathy skills towards the perioperative process.

Conditions

Empathy Skills

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Empathy score

  Empathy scores will be measured by the Jefferson Empathy Scale - Health Professions Students Form (JSE-HPS): developed to assess the empathic tendencies of health professions students in a clinical context, and will be used as the primary empathy measurement tool in this study. The scale was developed by Hojat et al. to measure the empathic attitudes of health professionals towards patient care and was later adapted for health professions students. The JSE-HPS is a self-report scale consisting of 7-point Likert-type items that reflect both cognitive and affective components of empathy in a clinical relationship context. 20 items 7-point Likert score range: 20-140 higher score = higher empathy

  Time Frame: Baseline; immediately post-intervention; 12th weeks

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Cognitive and affective empathy measured by the Cognitive and Affective Empathy Scale (CAES)

  Time Frame: Baseline; immediately post-intervention; 12th weeks

Study Arms (2)

Virtual Realty Video Group

EXPERIMENTAL

The students will be taken to an area prepared as a patient room in the simulation laboratory. They will be placed on a bed, playing the role of a patient. They will be shown a 360° pre-operative patient preparation video via VR glasses. The visual content used in the study was recorded with an Insta360 X4 brand 360° action camera. The video includes processes such as identity verification, preoperative evaluation, anesthesia preparation, transfer to the operating room, time-out procedure, etc. The video is approximately 9.5 minutes long. In addition to the VR experience, students in the intervention group will participate in theoretical lectures on the perioperative process, using lecture and question-and-answer methods as outlined in the surgical nursing course curriculum.

Other: VR Video

Control group

NO INTERVENTION

Students in the control group will not be included in the VR experience. They will attend only theoretical lectures using lecture and question-and-answer methods on the perioperative process, as outlined in the curriculum.

Interventions

VR Video OTHER

The nursing students in the experimental group 360° pre-operative patient preparation video via VR glasses. The visual content used in the study was recorded with an Insta360 X4 brand 360° action camera. The video includes processes such as identity verification, preoperative evaluation, anesthesia preparation, transfer to the operating room, time-out procedure, etc. The video is 9.5 minutes long.

Virtual Realty Video Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Being enrolled in and attending the Surgical Nursing course at the institution where the research is being conducted, and taking the course for the first time

You may not qualify if:

• Having worked or currently working in an operating room.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Acibadem University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Acibadem University

Istanbul, Other, 34752, Turkey (Türkiye)

RECRUITING

Central Study Contacts

Nuran Aysen PAMIR AKSOY

CONTACT

+902165004405; aysen.aksoy@acibadem.edu.tr

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assist. Prof.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 27, 2026
• First Posted: May 7, 2026
• Study Start: February 25, 2026
• Primary Completion: May 5, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): June 15, 2026
• Last Updated: May 7, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-02

Locations

TU (1)