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Virtual Reality vs. Standard-of-Care for Comfort During Laceration Repair

NCT03681717 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 64

Last updated 2018-09-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Lacerations are a common reason for presentation to the Emergency Department and children needing laceration repair with sutures are experiencing pain and anxiety.

Virtual Reality (VR) is an immersive experience using sight, sound, and position sense. Using VR may enhance distraction during the painful procedure and may reduce attention to pain.

This study will randomize children (6 - 16 years old) to receive Virtual Reality or standard of care in addition to pharmacoanalgesia during a laceration repair procedure. Investigators will measure pain, anxiety, satisfaction, amount of analgesia and the length of procedure and compare between the two groups.

Conditions

  • Laceration

Interventions

DEVICE

Virtual Reality

Participants wear a Virtual Reality headset that consists of a ASUS phone and a ReTrack Utopia 360 VR Headset. The phone runs the VR Roller Coaster app to produce the virtual environment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Doctors of BC

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • University of British Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ran D. Goldman, MD · University of British Columbia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-02-01
Primary Completion
2019-01-31
Completion
2019-01-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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