The Effect of Virtual Reality Application Used During Endoscopy on Pain, Anxiety and Vital Signs: A Mixed Methods Study

Launched by İBRAHİM NAS · Oct 18, 2022

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Objective: In this study, the effect of virtual reality application used during upper gastrointestinal endoscopy on pain, anxiety and vital signs will be investigated. The research will be conducted as a mixed methods research including quantitative and qualitative methods. The exploratory sequence mixed design model, one of the mixed method designs, will be used in the research.

The research was carried out in the endoscopy unit of a university hospital in Van between November 2022 and March 2023. This research, in which an exploratory sequential mixed design was used, consists of two sta...

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Eligibility criteria

• Criteria:
• Inclusion criteria:
• • Inclusion criteria for the quantitative study;
• • 18 years and older,
• • who can read and write Turkish,
• • without mental problems,
• • Having no vision, hearing or perception problems,
• • Diagnostic endoscopy was performed,
• • No sedation before and during the procedure
• • who volunteered to participate in the study,
• • Those who have not taken analgesics in the last 8 hours
• • Qualitative research inclusion criteria;
• • in the experimental group,
• • who volunteered to participate in the research
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Exclusion criteria from quantitative section research;
• • sedation applied,
• • who want to withdraw from the study,
• • Patients using analgesics or anti-anxiety medications before and during the procedure
• • Exclusion criteria from qualitative departmental research;
• • • Those in the control group