The Effect of Virtual Reality and Kaleidoscope on Pain and Anxiety Levels During Venipuncture in Children

Adiyaman University Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Pain

Treatments: Other: distraction methods

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03913897

2018/5-18

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim: The study was carried out in randomized control to determine the effect of two different distractions on pain and anxiety during blood collection.

Methods: The population of the study consisted of children between ages of 4-10 years who applied for venipuncture to a training and research hospital in Turkey between July and December 2018. A total of 139 children were included in the study, 46 of them with virtual reality goggles and 43 of them with control group. Information Form, Child Anxiety Scale, Visual Analogue Scale and Wong Baker Pain Scale were used in the collection of data.

Enrollment: 135 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 10 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being aged between 4 and 10 years for the child,
• applying for health control purpose,
• not having any chronic, mental or neurological illness,
• not using any analgesic in the last 6 hours before the venipuncture procedure.

Exclusion criteria

-having a chronic, mental or neurological illness,

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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135 participants in 3 patient groups

virtual reality group

Experimental group

Description:

The children in the groups were distracted by virtual reality goggles 2 minutes before venipuncture, until the process was over.

Treatment:

Other: distraction methods

kaleidoscope group

Experimental group

Description:

The children in the groups were distracted by kaleidoscope 2 minutes before the blood collection, until the process was over.

Treatment:

Other: distraction methods

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention was made to children in the control group