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

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

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.

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 stages. In the research, the quantitative phase, in which a pretest-posttest design, randomized controlled, experimental method was used, was completed with 75 patients, and the qualitative phase, in which the phenomenological/phenomenological design was used, was completed with 19 patients. Patient introduction form, state anxiety scale, pain visual comparison scale, patient follow-up form and semi-structured interview form were used to collect data. IBM SPSS V23 program (quantitative) and inductive qualitative content analysis (qualitative) were used to analyze the data.

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