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NCT04481893Completed

Interest of the Virtual Reality Headset in the Management of Perioperative Stress in Patients Candidates for Total Thyroidectomy

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 Sept 2025

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Study the interest of hypnosis techniques by virtual reality based on the use of a virtual reality headset with the AQUA® application on the reduction of pre-operative stress in patients candidates for total thyroidectomy

Status (registry)
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
82 (actual)
First submitted
7 Jul 2020
Start date
18 Nov 2020
Primary completion date
6 Jun 2025
Lead sponsor
Centre Francois Baclesse
NCT number
NCT04481893

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Participants enrolled: 82
  • From 18 Nov 2020 to the primary completion date, 6 Jun 2025
  • 3 sites in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Other illness

  • Patient with illnesses or conditions that hinder their ability to understand follow and / or comply with study procedures
  • Patient with personality disorders and / or psychiatric pathology

Other

  • Patient with a submerged goiter (lower edge of the thyroid not seen on the preoperative cervical ultrasound)
  • Patient with uncontrolled infectious pathology
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding woman or lack of contraception during genital activity
  • Patient deprived of liberty or placed under the authority of a guardian

Who the study is looking for

  • Patient\> 18 years old
  • Man or woman
  • Patient candidate for a total thyroidectomy, or a thyroid totalization
  • Preoperative Euthyroidism
  • Can justify outpatient care: score of the American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) 1, 2 or 3 stable; accompanied for return at home; can be watched by a loved one the night after returning home; reachable by telephone; living within an hour of transportation from a hospital and having a good level of understanding.
  • No history of parathyroid or recurrent pathology
  • Signature of informed consent before any specific procedure related to the study
  • Subject affiliated with a health security system

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (3)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Centre François Baclesse
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CaenFranceUnknown status
CHU Caen
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CaenFranceUnknown status
Clinique Mathilde
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RouenFranceUnknown status

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