The aim of this study is to determine the effect of Virtual Reality Glasses Used Before Cesarean Section on Surgical Fear and Anxiety
Hypotheses 01; there was no difference between the Surgical Fear and Anxiety score of the Virtual Reality Glasses group and the control group. The study will be carried out in two different groups. The practice will start with meeting the women whom will go to cesarean section in the hospital. After the women are evaluated in terms of eligibility criteria for the research, the women who are eligible will be informed about the research and written informed consent will be obtained from the women who accept. The random distribution of women to the study groups will be carried out using the Block Randomization method. The following applications will be made to the groups. Virtual Reality Glasses Group; the intervention will be given glasses before the surgery and will be shown a video (30 minutes) of the 9-month fetal development process. Among the women who were admitted for a planned caesarean section, those who met the criteria would first be given the Informed Consent Form and a data collection form including sociodemographic characteristics, surgical fear scale, Spielberg State-Trait Anxiety Scale, and then randomization would be applied. control group; the first surgical fear scale, anxiety scores will be recorded. After cesarean section anxiety scores will be recorded.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
120
control group
Ondokuz Mayis University
Samsun, Turkey (Türkiye)
RECRUITINGSpielberger State Anxiety Scale
The inventory was developed by Spielberger, Gorsuch, and Lushene in 1970. An adaptation, validity, and reliability study of the State-Trait Anxiety Scale in Turkish was conducted by Oner and Le Compte in 1983. The scale consists of two subdimensions: the state anxiety has 20 items and is used to determine what is felt at a specific moment under certain conditions, and the trait anxiety has 20 items and is used to determine what has been felt in the last 7 days. High scores from each subscale indicate a high level of anxiety. The Cronbach's a for the STAI ranges from 0.83 to 0.87. It will be applied half an hour before the surgery.
Time frame: 30 minutes
Surgical Fear Scale (SFS):
The scale was developed by Theunissen et al. (2014) and its validity and reliability for use in Turkey were established by Bağdigen and Karaman Özlü (2018). The scale consists of 8 items in an 11-point Likert format, scored between 0 and 10. It is divided into two subscales, each containing 4 items, measuring short-term and long-term fears related to surgery. Items 1-4 assess fear regarding short-term outcomes of surgery, while items 5-8 evaluate fear concerning long-term outcomes. Each item is rated from "0: not afraid at all" to "10: extremely afraid." A higher total score, with a maximum of 26 points, indicates a greater level of fear. In the validity and reliability study, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the total score was found to be 0.93.It will be applied half an hour before the surgery.
Time frame: 30 minutes
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