Virtual Reality for Non-cardiac Chest Pain

Mayo Clinic

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Gastrointestinal Diseases

Chest Pain

Treatments

Other: Virtual Reality

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06262126

23-012673

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if virtual reality (VR) will improve symptoms in non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP).

Full description

The primary aim of this study is to assess the overall feasibility of virtual reality for the treatment of noncardiac chest pain and identify problems, issues, or challenges that may impact the performance of a future clinical trial. As such, the study will focus on willingness to participate, patient adherence, patient retention, and burdensomeness of the intervention and survey instruments. As a lesser objective, we will assess the effectiveness of virtual reality in patients with noncardiac chest pain at improving pain severity, symptom hypervigilance, anxiety, quality of life, and resilience.

Enrollment

10 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Symptoms of non-cardiac chest pain (recurrent anginal-like or atypical chest pain)
Negative prior cardiac evaluation (at a minimum, including electrocardiogram)
Prior esophagogastroduodenoscopy and/or barium esophagram to rule out severe esophagitis, stricture, or motility abnormality

Exclusion criteria

Initiation of a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) within 8 weeks
Major concomitant illness
Current drug or alcohol use that that would interfere with adherence to study requirements
Symptoms of vertigo or dizziness that would limit tolerability of the VR headset