Pain Control After Trauma (VRHTrauma)

University of Washington

Status: Completed

Conditions: Trauma

Treatments: Behavioral: Virtual Reality

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00739076

30359-G

R01GM042725-09A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Using Virtual Reality as a form of pain control for trauma patients.

Full description

The purpose of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of virtual reality (a form of distraction) in order to reduce patients' pain from trauma.

Enrollment: 184 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age greater than or equal to 12 years
• Compliant and able to complete questionnaires
• Hospitalization for internal injuries requiring a laparotomy or for orthopedic injuries (closed long bone or calcaneus fractures).
• A minimum of 3 days hospitalization
• No history of psychiatric (DSM-IV-R Axis I) disorder
• Not demonstrating delirium, psychosis or any form of Organic Brain Disorder
• Able to communicate verbally
• Able to take oral medications
• Baseline pain level of >=5/10
• English-speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Age less than 12 years
• Not capable of indicating pain intensity
• Not capable of filling out study measures
• Hospitalization of less than 3 days
• Evidence of traumatic brain injury
• History of psychiatric (DSM-IV-R Axis I) disorder as evidenced in the admitting RN and MD admission notes.
• Demonstrating delirium, psychosis or any form of Organic Brain Disorder and associated memory problems.
• Unable to communicate orally.
• Unable to take oral medications
• History of sig. cardiac, endocrine, neurologic, metabolic, respiratory, gastrointestinal or genitourinary impairment
• Receiving prophylaxis for alcohol or drug withdrawal
• Developmental disability
• Mini-mental status score of greater than 20 in patients older than 80 years or suspected of cognitive deficits
• Non-English Speaking
• Extreme susceptibility to motion sickness
• Seizure history

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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184 participants in 3 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

Virtual Reality Hypnosis

Treatment:

Behavioral: Virtual Reality

2

Experimental group

Description:

Virtual Reality Distraction

Treatment:

Behavioral: Virtual Reality

3

Experimental group

Description:

Standard treatment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Virtual Reality