The Effect of Virtual Reality Experience on Infusion-related Pain

Seoul National University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Virtual Reality

Treatments: Behavioral: Virtual reality experience

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04490603

2005-086-1123

Details and patient eligibility

About

This clinical trial aims to analyze the effect of virtual reality experience on infusion-related pain with lumbar epidural catheterization.

Full description

Patients with chronic pain are to suffer from acute pain during their chronic pain-relieving interventions. However, there is no active countermeasure against pain during these procedures. This prospective randomized clinical study seeks to find an appropriate solution to the procedure related acute pain of these patients by actively utilizing virtual reality experiences.

Enrollment: 72 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: If all of the following conditions are met

• A person with chronic low back pain that lasts more than 3 months due to spinal stenosis or lumbar disc disease.
• Adults over 20
• Those who decided to participate out of his/her own free will and signed in written consent

Exclusion Criteria: If the patient meets one or more of the following criteria, He or She cannot participate this clinical trial.

• In case of contraindication to general lumbar catheterization (e.g. coatulopathy, infection, etc)
• Hearing and vision impairments
• Affective disorder
• History of epilepsy or seizure
• If communication is not possible due to impaired cognitive ability
• Those who have been deemed inappropriate by the researchers

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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72 participants in 2 patient groups

Conventional group

No Intervention group

Description:

Drug is injected to epidural space for a total of 50 minutes. The drug injection is provided in the same way as the conventional method of injecting drugs in Seoul National University Hospital Pain Center.

VR group

Experimental group

Description:

Drug is injected to epidural space for a total of 50 minutes. The drug injection is provided with virtual reality experience. Conditions are the same in both arms except for virtual reality experience.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Virtual reality experience