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Evaluation of Interest of LUMEEN Virtual Reality Headset to Reduce Preoperative Anxiety in AMBulatory Surgery

Evaluation of Interest of LUMEEN Virtual Reality Headset to Reduce Preoperative Anxiety in AMBulatory Surgery

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05590078
Acronym
AMBLUMEEN
Enrollment
106
Registered
2022-10-21
Start date
2023-03-21
Completion date
2023-10-18
Last updated
2023-12-22

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Anxiety

Keywords

Virtual reality, preoperative anxiety, anxiety

Brief summary

This study evaluate the interest of Virtual Reality to reduce the preoperative anxiety in patients who undergo to ambulatory surgery. Half of the patients will received the virtual reality program, and the other half will received de common treatment.

Interventions

The 20-minute virtual reality session, in the outpatient department before surgery, immerses the patient in calm environments combined with music therapy and breathing exercises to relax and reduce anxiety.

The State Trait Anxiety Inventory (State anxiety) is a questionnaire given to adults that shows how strong a person's feelings of anxiety are right now, just now. The score is measured on arrival in the outpatient department and just before going into the intervention room (= after the virtual reality session for the experimental group)

OTHERVirtual Reality Satisfaction Score

Likert scale satisfaction questionnaire to collect the patients' satisfaction regarding virtual reality session

OTHERPerioperative care satisfaction score

Likert scale satisfaction questionnaire to collect the patients' satisfaction regarding perioperative care

Sponsors

Hospices Civils de Lyon
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* ASA I-II (classification of the American Society of Anesthesiologists). * Ambulatory surgery scheduled * Score STAI YA \> 45 * Affiliated to a social security * Understanding the study and signing the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

* Contraindications for Midazolam * Patients with disorders not compatible with virtual reality: severe cognitive or psychiatric disorders, blindness, claustrophobia, epilepsy * Patient with a pacemaker of others implantable medical devices * patient with burns or wounds on the upper face or scalp * Visual hallucinations * Contagious disease by air or indirect contact * Person unable to express their consent * Minor patient or patient under curatorship or guardianship * patient participating in another interventional clinical trial

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Change of AnxietyD0 : baseline and right before going to surgeryMeasured by State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI YA) . The scale includes twenty items.. Each question is assigned 1 to 4 points, giving a score of 20 (low anxiety) to 80 points (high anxiety)

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Percentage of patients with intraoperative remifentanil requiredD0 (during surgery)Comparison in term of Number of case where the utilisation of remifentanil was necessary in peroperative between control group and virtual reality group.
Pain scoreD0 (after surgery)Pain assessment with numerical scale from 0 (low) to 10(high)
Morphine dose usedD0 (after surgery in recovery room)Comparison of morphine dose used in recovery room between control group and virtual reality group
Perioperative care satisfaction scorethrough study completion, 1 dayLikert scale satisfaction questionnaire to collect the patients' satisfaction regarding perioperative care. 5 answer possible :Very satisfied - satisfied- Neither satisfied nor unsatisfied- Unsatisfied - Very unsatisfied
Number of milligrams of midazolam administeredD0 (before surgery)Comparison of midazolam premedication to reduce preoperative anxiety between control group and virtual reality group.
Adverse events related to the virtual reality sessionthrough study completion, 1 dayNature and severity of adverse events related to the virtual reality session
Virtual Reality Satisfaction Scorethrough study completion, 1 dayLikert scale satisfaction questionnaire to collect the patients' satisfaction regarding virtual reality session. 5 items scored from 0 (low) to 10 (high)
Experience of the caregiverD0 (before surgery)Experience of the caregiver concerning the implementation of virtual reality in the outpatient department before surgery . 2 items scored from 0 (low) to 10 (high)
Nature and severity of adverse eventsthrough study completion, 1 dayComparison of adverse event during hospitalization between control group and virtual reality group

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026