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Effects of Social Presence and Perception in Virtual Reality on Pain (SPP)

NCT05335057 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 71

Last updated 2024-08-23

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Summary

This experiment aims to examine the effects of social interaction with close others or strangers in virtual reality or through a video-conferencing call, on pain threshold in healthy volunteers in an induced pain task.

In a within-subjects study, participants will complete a series of induced-pain heat ramps in four conditions. These conditions are 1. alone in virtual reality 2. with a close friend or family member in virtual reality 3. with a stranger in virtual reality 4. with the same close friend or family member in a video call.

Conditions

  • Pain Threshold

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

VR Close Other

Participants will be stably seated, and observed by a research assistant, as they complete an induced pain threshold task while they experience one of four randomly assigned virtual environments while chatting with the friend or family member who accompanied them to the lab

BEHAVIORAL

VR Alone

Participants will be stably seated, and observed by a research assistant, as they complete an induced pain threshold task while they experience one of four randomly assigned virtual environments alone

BEHAVIORAL

VR Stranger

Participants will be stably seated, and observed by a research assistant, as they complete an induced pain threshold task while they experience one of four randomly assigned virtual environments while chatting with a stranger

BEHAVIORAL

Video Close Other

Participants will be stably seated, and observed by a research assistant, as they complete an induced pain threshold task while they chat with the friend or family member who accompanied them to the lab using a video-conferencing tool

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-10-22
Primary Completion
2023-05-05
Completion
2023-05-05

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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