Hypnosis and Virtual Reality in Bone Marrow Examination

NCT05982249 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2024-05-07

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare the effects of hypnosis, virtual reality or their combination in patients undergoing a bone marrow procedure.

The main question it aims to answer is whether such interventions may relieve anxiety and other symptoms described by patients undergoing the procedure.

Before the bone marrow procedure and after being explained on the study and signing informed consent, the nurse will measure vital signs and participants will fill-out a 2-minutes' questionnaire and will be assigned to one of 3 groups:

* Hearing a 7-minutes hypnotic script via earphones
* Seeing and hearing virtual images and sounds via a virtual reality device during 7 minutes
* None of these After these interventions or 10 minutes after assignation for patients not receiving intervention, patients will fill questionnaires again (about 5 minutes for filling the 2 questionnaires) and vital signs will be measured again. Then the bone marrow procedure will be performed. After the bone marrow procedure, the participants will fill-out another 2-minutes questionnaire and vital signs will be measured by the nurse.

Researchers will compare hypnotic script, virtual reality, their combination or none of them to see if they can affect anxiety and other complaints in patients undergoing a bone marrow procedure.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Hypnosis

Patients will be given earphones to hear a hypnotic script that was recorded by Dr. Zahi Arnon, a psychologist specializing in hypnosis after observing about ten BM examinations at the hematology institute. The length of the recording is about 7 minutes.

DEVICE

Virtual reality (VR)

Patients will be connected to a VR device that will transmit to the patient's choice a 3D screen and soothing noise for about 7 minutes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bnai Zion Medical Center

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Ilana Levy Yurkovski, MD · Bnai Zion Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-07-13
Primary Completion
2026-07-31
Completion
2026-07-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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