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The effect of virtual reality on anxiety, stress, and hemodynamic parameters during cesarean section

A randomized controlled clinical trial

Sultan A. Almedhesh, Wafaa T. Elgzar, Heba A. Ibrahim and Hiba A. Osman
Saudi Medical Journal April 2022, 43 (4) 360-369; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.4.20210921
Sultan A. Almedhesh
From the Department of Pediatric And Pediatric Cardiologist (Almedhesh), College of Medicine; from the Department of Maternity and Childhood Nursing (Elgzar, Ibrahim), Nursing College Najran University; and from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Osman), Maternity and Children Hospital, Najran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Wafaa T. Elgzar
From the Department of Pediatric And Pediatric Cardiologist (Almedhesh), College of Medicine; from the Department of Maternity and Childhood Nursing (Elgzar, Ibrahim), Nursing College Najran University; and from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Osman), Maternity and Children Hospital, Najran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Heba A. Ibrahim
From the Department of Pediatric And Pediatric Cardiologist (Almedhesh), College of Medicine; from the Department of Maternity and Childhood Nursing (Elgzar, Ibrahim), Nursing College Najran University; and from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Osman), Maternity and Children Hospital, Najran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Hiba A. Osman
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vol. 43 no. 4 360-369
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2022.43.4.20210921
PubMed 
35414614

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received December 23, 2021
  • Accepted March 21, 2022
  • Published online April 12, 2022.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

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  1. Sultan A. Almedhesh, PhD,
  2. Wafaa T. Elgzar, PhD⇑,
  3. Heba A. Ibrahim, PhD and
  4. Hiba A. Osman, BSc
  1. From the Department of Pediatric And Pediatric Cardiologist (Almedhesh), College of Medicine; from the Department of Maternity and Childhood Nursing (Elgzar, Ibrahim), Nursing College Najran University; and from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Osman), Maternity and Children Hospital, Najran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Wafaa T. Elgzar, Department of Maternity and Childhood Nursing, Nursing College, Najran University, Najran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: wafaa.elgzar{at}nur.dmu.edu.eg ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2866-3119
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