The Effect of Virtual Reality Glasses on Labor Pain

Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3; Phase 2

Conditions: Labor Pain; Anxiety

Treatments: Device: three-dimensional glasses(manufactor Vuzix,wrap 920); Other: usual care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01687933

Virtual Reality System

Details and patient eligibility

About

There are different medicinal and non medicinal methods to control labor pain. Today, much attention has been on non medicinal methods because of limitations and complications of medical procedures. Virtual reality is a new and promising method of diversion of mind that may have an impact on labor pain. This study was conducted to determine the effect of virtual reality on the first stage of labor pain.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 29 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Iranian
• low risk pregnancy
• primipara

Exclusion criteria

• vision or ear disorders
• History of motion sickness or headaches
• psychological disease or Addiction

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

three-dimensional glasses (Virtual Reality glasses)

Experimental group

Description:

Women in case group used the glasses for 30 minutes

Treatment:

Device: three-dimensional glasses(manufactor Vuzix,wrap 920)

usual care

Experimental group

Description:

Women in control group did not use the glasses.

Treatment:

Other: usual care