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Virtual Reality Therapy for Pain Management at the Emergency Department

NCT06089642 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 124

Last updated 2024-04-12

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Summary

Rationale: Prescriptions of analgesics, especially opioids, have doubled in the Emergency department (ED) over the past decades in response to frequently reported undertreatment of pain in ED patients. Consequently, there is a shift towards a more restrained utilisation of opioids at the ED. However, there are still few (non-)pharmacological alternatives.

Virtual Reality (VR) therapy is a relatively new and promising technique in non-pharmacologic pain reduction and anxiolysis and shows positive results on pain relief and pain.

Objective: Primary objective is to investigate the effect of VR on patient-reported pain outcomes in the ED. Secondary objectives are to investigate the effect of VR on analgesics use, patient-reported outcomes, and process indicators and to identify barriers to implementation. Last, subanalyses will be performed to compare the effectiveness of two types of VR: VR based on distraction (VRD) and VR based on focussed attention (VRF).

Study design: randomized controlled trial.

Study population: Adults admitted to the ED with a NRS pain score of 4 (out of ten) or more and unacceptable pain.

Intervention: There will be a control group receiving usual care and a intervention group that receives additional VR therapy.

Main study parameters/endpoints: The main study outcome is the difference in patient-reported NRS pain score.

Conditions

  • Pain, Acute

Interventions

DEVICE

Virtual reality

Virtual reality based on distraction and Virtual Reality based on focussed attention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Radboud University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-12-01
Primary Completion
2025-04-01
Completion
2025-04-01

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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