Combining Virtual Reality and Hypnosis to Alleviate Chronic Pain in Elderly Patients with Hand Arthritis (VRHArthrisis)

Ciusss de L'Est de l'Île de Montréal

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Arthritis; Elderly; Arthritis/Arthrosis; Arthritis, Rheumatoid

Treatments: Behavioral: Session 1bis - 1 week; Behavioral: Virtual Reality: Forest; Behavioral: Virtual reality: Beach; Behavioral: Follow-up; Behavioral: Hypnosis: Magic Hand; Behavioral: Hypnosis: Pain Manipulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06833905

2024-3539

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this pilot randomized clinical trial is to test the efficacy of an intervention combining virtual reality and hypnosis on decreasing pain and improving quality of life in elderly patients with hand arthritis. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does the intervention allow for an improvement of patient reported outcomes related to pain and quality of life?
• Does the intervention allow for an improvement of physiological variables related to pain? Researchers will compare intervention group to a passive control group (i.e., waiting list with treatment as usual).

Participants in the intervention group will be provided a virtual reality headset allowing them to beneficiate from the virtual reality and hypnosis modules.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Fluent in French
• Being diagnosed with hand arthrisis
• Reporting an invalidating chronic pain in hand related to the condition

Exclusion criteria

• Experiencing a medical condition altering the ability to consent or participate in the study
• Experiencing cognitive disorders; Experiencing sensory disorders (deafness, blindness)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Combined virtual reality and hypnosis

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention consist in 4 different sessions with the VR headset, two consisting in presenting landscapes (i.e., beach, forest) and two consisting in hypnosis techniques (i.e., magic hand, manipulating hand).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Hypnosis: Pain Manipulation

Behavioral: Hypnosis: Magic Hand

Behavioral: Follow-up

Behavioral: Virtual reality: Beach

Behavioral: Session 1bis - 1 week

Behavioral: Virtual Reality: Forest

Waiting list

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group consist in a waiting list.