An observational study in All Conditions for Which a CT or MRI Exam Can be Required, sponsored by University Hospital, Bordeaux. Completed at 1 site in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-12-27.
Sponsored by University Hospital, Bordeaux · Observational
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VERTIM study aims to evaluate the influence of different environments of imaging waiting rooms on the anxiety felt by patients before MRI or CT scans. For this, four environments (neutral/standard; and nature "green", "sea", and "zen") will be set up in MRI and CT waiting rooms.
Each year, the Medical Imaging Unit of the University Hospital of Bordeaux (CHU Bordeaux) receives 80,500 patients for CT or MRI scans in usual care. The length of waiting, the environment of the waiting room, the reasons for the examination are factors that increase the levels of anxiety during waiting and but also during early examination.
Previous studies have shown that the integration of nature (real as well as artificial) is likely to decrease the level of anxiety. Before implementing a multicentre and randomised trial, a pilot study is necessary to assess the feasibility of the procedure, to test the relevance of the tools, to identify the influence of socio-cultural and socio-demographic characteristics on anxiety's level.
For this, the present study will be conducted over the same period of the year in order to avoid seasonality biases. The study will take place over 8 weeks, during which MRI or scanner patients will be exposed either to the neutral environment (standard environment of the waiting room) or to one of the 3 environments (wall posters representing the nature ("green", "sea", "zen")).
There is no specific intervention assigned to the study participants, i.e. the patients will receive one of the four environments as part of routine medical care, and a researcher studies the effect of this environment on anxiety's level. Every week, one environment will be set up in the MRI or scanner waiting room and the study will be proposed to all eligible patients present in this room. Fifty patients are expected each week so that 100 patients per environment and equally distributed between the MRI and scanner waiting rooms are expected.
7,207 studies on the registry are indexed under Anxiety Disorders; 1,682 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 418 is above the median of 168 across 978 observational studies indexed under Anxiety Disorders.
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The participants are major patients who will be present in the waiting room of the MRI or the scanner in order to carry out one of these two exams
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Exclusion Criteria:
The CONTROL (neutral) environment corresponds to the standard environment of the imaging waiting rooms
The ZEN environment will represent a clean, minimalist nature
Other: Natural images in imaging waiting rooms
The GREEN environment will represent rural landscapes, undergrowth
Other: Natural images in imaging waiting rooms
The SEA environment will represent lakes, ponds, seaside
Other: Natural images in imaging waiting rooms
Standard environment for hospital imaging waiting rooms
Also known as: Neutral
Average of the scores of anxiety-State (STAI-Y).
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Average of the scores of emotional perception for the various esthetic approaches
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Scores of the anxiety-trait in each of the subgroups
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Scores of satisfaction for the various esthetic approaches
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Strength of the interaction between emotional perception *environnement to explain the level of anxiety State
This outcome is measured through the scores of emotional perception (emotional perception), the nature of environment applied (control, zen, green or sea) and the STAI-Y scale score (level of state anxiety)
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Reliability of the tool: coefficient alpha of Cronbach, or coefficient α ≥ 0,7.
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Reason for MRI or scanner's prescription
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Anxiolytic treatment and / or antidepressants (regular intake)
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Anxiolytic treatment (specific prescription for examination)
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
gender
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
age
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Level of education
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
professional category
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Type of housing
house or building, floor, elevator, garden, ...
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Lifestyle
urban, rural
Time frame: The day the patient waits in the imaging waiting room
Plan to share: No
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Ran from Oct 2017 to primary completion in Dec 2017, 2 months.
Of 411 non-industry observational studies under Anxiety Disorders, half reached primary completion within 19 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 6 and three quarters within 49. This study's 2 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 439 studies reached it within 19 months; a quarter within 6 and three quarters within 48.
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