The Effect of Virtual Reality Applications

The scale is used to assess subjectively perceived pain. It is a 10 cm (100 mm) ruler with no pain on one end and the "most severe pain" on the other. The individuals participating in the study are asked to mark the intensity of pain they are currently feeling, explaining that the number "0" on the scale means "I feel no pain" and that the intensity of pain increases as the numbers increase, and the number "10" means "I feel the most severe pain". An increase in the score obtained from the scale in the assessment indicates that the pain is increasing. Each patient will be administered two times.

Fear of Pain Scale-III is a 30-item, 5-point Likert type scale developed to measure fear and/or anxiety about pain. The scale consists of 3 sub-dimensions and there are 10 items in each dimension. Scale items for fear of severe pain are 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 18, 25, 27; scale items for fear of mild pain 2, 4, 7, 12, 19, 22, 23, 24, 28, 30; The scale items for fear of medical pain are 8, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 26, 29. In evaluating the score of the scale, which has no inverse expression, the items are rated with a Likert-type scoring ranging from 1 to 5 (1- never, 2-a little, 3-quite a bit, 4-a lot, 5-extremely). 1-refers to never feeling fear, 5-expresses excessive fear. The lowest possible score in total is 30 and the highest score is 150. The lowest score that can be obtained for the sub-dimensions is 10 and the highest score is 50. A high score on the scale indicates that the individual's fear of pain is also high.

It measures the severity of anxiety symptoms experienced by individuals. Consisting of 21 items, scored between 0-3; It is a scale filled by the patient himself. Score Range is 0-63. Anxiety levels of the patients according to the scores obtained; 0-7 points are classified as no anxiety, 8-15 points as mild anxiety, 16-25 points as moderate anxiety, and 26 and above points as severe anxiety.