Effect of Virtual Reality on the Need of Premedication Before Surgery

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Conditions studied: Anxiety, Premedication, Surgery, Virtual Reality

In brief

This study will assess, on patients requesting a pharmacological premedication in the preoperative period, if virtual reality reality could reduce the request of pharmacological premedication while maintaining a good level of comfort for the patient. The aim of this study is to understand if virtual reality could reduce the need for pharmacological premedication and their associated secondary effects.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07450456

Run by

Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona

People needed

40

Starts

2025-11-11

Expected to finish

2026-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-04

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All patients undergoing elective surgery
• Minimal age of 18-year-old
• Able to give informed consent for the study
• Requesting pharmacological premedication in the pre-operative period.

You may not qualify if…

• Lacking capacity or ability to complete the consent form or to respond to the required obligations linked to the study protocol
• Contraindications to pharmacological premedication
• Known cognitive dysfunction, previous history of neurological/psychiatric diseases like epilepsy
• Non Italian speaking patients
• Injuries to the head/face that would prohibit wearing headsets
• Infectious skin conditions of the head/face
• Contact isolation due to bacteria and viruses
• Symptoms of vertigo or motion sickness
• Reduced visual or auditory acuity
• Pregnancy
• Claustrophobia

Where it is running

• Istituto Cardiocentro — Lugano, Canton Ticino, Switzerland (enrolling)

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