Investigating the effect of Virtual Reality on perceived hospital anxiety, worry and depression and the rate of pregnancy in women who are candidates for intrauterine sperm insemination

Determining the effect of virtual reality on the severity of perceived hospital worry, anxiety and depression and the rate of pregnancy in women who are candidates for intrauterine sperm insemination.

The clinical trial with intervention and control groups, single blind, randomized, on 114 patients, will be used for randomization by random allocation rule.

Location: Infertility Clinic, Kausar Hospital, Urmia . Methodology: completion of relevant questionnaires before and after the process of sperm transfer by all the people in the intervention and control groups, and the people in the intervention group benefited from virtual reality glasses with soothing content and images for 30 minutes together. Onesided blind study: selection of white envelopes with no name and sign determining the group with the presence of a person other than the researcher and leaving the participant unaware of the content inside the envelope.

Inclusion criteria: not having children at home, the first experience of treatment with intrauterine sperm insemination, infertility of female origin, not having vision, hearing and movement disorders. Exclusion and nonentry criteria are male infertility, refusal to continue participating in the research.

Completion of hospital anxiety and depression and worry questionnaires by all participants before and after the sperm transfer process, the benefit of the intervention group for 20 minutes before the start of the transfer process and 10 minutes during the transfer from the virtual reality glasses and the benefit of the people The control group only received standard care

The possibility of reducing the severity of worry and hospital anxiety and depression and the possibility of increasing positive pregnancy test results after using virtual reality glasses.

The randomization method will be of a limited type called random allocation law; First, 114 cards (numbered from 1 to 114) will be prepared for the total number of people under study; Group membership will be determined based on the removal of cards; It should be noted that these cards will be placed inside white envelopes without name and mark and the cards will be chosen by the participants in the presence of a person other than the researcher; The participant and the researcher will be unaware of the content inside the envelope ; Even numbers will be assigned in the intervention group and odd numbers in the control group ; Then the removed card will be discarded.

The cards identifying the groups of participants will be inside anonymous white envelopes and these cards will be chosen by the participants in the presence of a person other than the researcher ; The participant and the . researcher will be unaware of the content inside the envelope

All data from hospital worry, anxiety and depression questionnaires and demographic questionnaire will be shared.

Access to documents and data files starts six months after the publication of the article and results.

The obtained data will be accessible to researchers working in academic and scientific institutions, as well as people working in the relevant industry, from the time of access to them.

The data will be provided to the mentioned people for further guidance in conducting similar studies (for example, the use of an intervention similar to virtual reality in the field of infertility or the use of virtual reality glasses in other fields other than infertility).

Dear applicants, they can send more information to the email address: ghazalehgholamii76@gmail.com or postal address: Bostan Girls Student Dormitory, Zakir Street ,Apadana Crossroads, Shahid Bahonar Highway, Urmia by zip code:6257757168 or contact number : 0098 09909358804 (respondent: Ghazaleh Gholami) refer.

Applicants for documents can contact the respondent through one of the mentioned communication channels, And after stating their reasons for requesting documents, The necessary information will be provided to them within a maximum period of one week.