Limited-English Proficiency (LEP) Virtual Reality (VR) Study

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parents; Anxiety; Language

Treatments: Behavioral: Virtual Reality

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03689868

46551

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if non-invasive distracting devices (Virtual Reality headset) are more effective than the standard of care (i.e., no technology based distraction) for preventing anxiety in parental and pediatric populations with limited English proficiency (LEP).

Enrollment: 44 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ages 0-99 (Child participants will be ages 0 to 17. Parents of children of any age may also be enrolled)
• Able to consent
• Self-identified as having a limited English proficiency or English-proficiency

Exclusion criteria

• People who do not consent
• Significant Cognitive Impairment
• History of Severe Motion Sickness
• Current Nausea
• Seizures
• Visual Problems
• Patients whose children are clinically unstable or require urgent/emergent intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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44 participants in 2 patient groups

Virtual Reality

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Virtual Reality

Control

No Intervention group