Reduce Stress Associated With Needle Aspiration, in Voluntary and Replacement Blood Donors

Center for Blood and Tissues IV and V Region, Chile

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Stress

Treatments: Device: Use of virtual reality lenses, with relaxing audio-visual contents

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03202433

ORD1083

Details and patient eligibility

About

Reduce stress associated with needle aspiration, in voluntary and replacement blood donors.

This study has not been completed.

Full description

The purpose of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of Virtual Reality (as a form of distraction) to reduce the stress associated with extraction needle puncture in the volunteer blood donors and reposition of Fixed Collection of the Valparaiso Blood Center, Of the Valparaíso San Antonio Health Service.

Enrollment: 240 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Able to understand and / or visualize the numerical scale of pain
• Spanish spoken
• Greater than 50 Kilograms of weight
• Blood hemoglobin: Greater than 12.5 g% in women and greater than 13.5 g% in men
• Have been accepted as a blood donor.

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to understand and / or visualize the numerical scale of pain
• Does not speak Spanish
• Less than 50 Kilograms
• Blood hemoglobin: Less than 12.5 g% in women and less than 13.5 g% in men.
• Have been rejected as a blood donor.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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240 participants in 2 patient groups

Virtual Reality Distractor

Experimental group

Description:

The objective is to apply a technique, using virtual reality lenses, with relaxing audio-visual contents of no more than ten minutes, to reduce stress before and during the blood donation process and to respond to the level of pain perceived during donation, either post-puncture and withdrawal of the needle

Treatment:

Device: Use of virtual reality lenses, with relaxing audio-visual contents

Traditional Blood Donation Process

No Intervention group

Description:

The objective is to respond to the level of pain perceived during donation, either post-puncture and withdrawal of the needle, without virtual reality support