VERTIM study aims to evaluate the influence of different environments of imaging waiting rooms on the anxiety felt by patients before MRI or CT scans. For this, four environments (neutral/standard; and nature "green", "sea", and "zen") will be set up in MRI and CT waiting rooms.
Each year, the Medical Imaging Unit of the University Hospital of Bordeaux (CHU Bordeaux) receives 80,500 patients for CT or MRI scans in usual care. The length of waiting, the environment of the waiting room, the reasons for the examination are factors that increase the levels of anxiety during waiting and but also during early examination. Previous studies have shown that the integration of nature (real as well as artificial) is likely to decrease the level of anxiety. Before implementing a multicentre and randomised trial, a pilot study is necessary to assess the feasibility of the procedure, to test the relevance of the tools, to identify the influence of socio-cultural and socio-demographic characteristics on anxiety's level. For this, the present study will be conducted over the same period of the year in order to avoid seasonality biases. The study will take place over 8 weeks, during which MRI or scanner patients will be exposed either to the neutral environment (standard environment of the waiting room) or to one of the 3 environments (wall posters representing the nature ("green", "sea", "zen")). There is no specific intervention assigned to the study participants, i.e. the patients will receive one of the four environments as part of routine medical care, and a researcher studies the effect of this environment on anxiety's level. Every week, one environment will be set up in the MRI or scanner waiting room and the study will be proposed to all eligible patients present in this room. Fifty patients are expected each week so that 100 patients per environment and equally distributed between the MRI and scanner waiting rooms are expected.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
418
Standard environment for hospital imaging waiting rooms
Hopital Pellegrin
Bordeaux, France
Average of the scores of anxiety-State (STAI-Y).
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Average of the scores of emotional perception for the various esthetic approaches
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Scores of the anxiety-trait in each of the subgroups
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Scores of satisfaction for the various esthetic approaches
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Strength of the interaction between emotional perception *environnement to explain the level of anxiety State
This outcome is measured through the scores of emotional perception (emotional perception), the nature of environment applied (control, zen, green or sea) and the STAI-Y scale score (level of state anxiety)
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Reliability of the tool: coefficient alpha of Cronbach, or coefficient α ≥ 0,7.
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Reason for MRI or scanner's prescription
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Anxiolytic treatment and / or antidepressants (regular intake)
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Anxiolytic treatment (specific prescription for examination)
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professional category
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