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Preoperative Anxiety in Pediatric Reconstructive Burn Patients: The Role of Virtual Reality Hypnosis

NCT00569647 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 25

Last updated 2007-12-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Children with burns often require repeated reconstructive surgeries. These children tend to develop high levels of anxiety before coming to the operating room. Preoperative sedation, while somewhat effective in relieving this anxiety, has a number of side effects. The researchers hypothesized that preoperative anxiety could be effectively reduced by the utilization of a device which induces a relaxing hypnotic state through emmersion in a virtual reality environment.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Virtual Reality Hypnosis

Use of virtual reality headset to induce hypnotic state

DEVICE

Placebo

no use of device

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Shriners Hospitals for Children

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • John E McCall, MD · University of Cincinnati

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Max Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-11-30
Completion
2006-05-31

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