Trial reportThe Libyan journal of medicine2026
Virtual reality and perioperative anxiety: a randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in The Libyan journal of medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Preoperative anxiety is a feeling of insecurity, physical and psychological discomfort that arises from the prospect of undergoing surgery. Managing anxiety is a therapeutic cornerstone in anesthetic care. Virtual reality has shown a significant effect on managing anxiety and pain by leveraging the principle of distraction, hypnosis, or a combination of distraction and relaxation. We aim to study the impact of virtual reality on perioperative anxiety during surgeries performed under regional anesthesia. This was a monocentric, prospective, randomized study conducted over a three-month period from March 2023 to May 2023 in the anesthesia and resuscitation department of Taher Sfar Hospital in Mahdia. A total of 72 patients scheduled for orthopedic surgeries were included. Patients were randomized to be allocated to: VR+ group (
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.