The Effects of Using an Interactive Game With Virtual Reality for Children During Intravenous Placement

National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fear; Pian

Treatments: Device: Virtual reality; Device: Photo book

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04558086

108163-F

Details and patient eligibility

About

To develop the intervention strategies of hospitalized school-age children with IV placement, using interactive virtual reality(VR)as a guiding play and emotional catharsis play, to further examine the effectiveness of reducing IV pain and fear.

Enrollment: 134 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children ages 6-12.
• Children who where clearly conscious.
• Children who agreed and were required to receive intravenous injections after physicians' diagnoses.
• Children and their primary caregivers who could communicate in Mandarin or Taiwanese
• Children and their primary caregivers who could read Chinese that agreed to participate in this study and sign written consent forms

Exclusion criteria

• Children with developmental delay, epilepsy, or heart diseases
• Children undergoing chemotherapy; children who were visually or hearing impaired
• Children who were nearsighted with more than 8.0 diopters or farsighted with 5.0 diopters.
• Children who had sustained head trauma in the past month
• Children who were confirmed to be obese according to the recommended body mass index values for children and adolescents
• Children who required blood transfusions and blood preparation to be performed according to physician diagnoses
• Children who received two or more intravenous injections and had their blood drawn only one time

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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134 participants in 2 patient groups

Reduce pain and fear

Experimental group

Description:

To develop the intervention strategies of hospitalized school-age children with IV placement, using interactive virtual reality(VR)as a guiding play and emotional catharsis play, to further examine the effectiveness of reducing IV pain and fear.

Treatment:

Device: Virtual reality

control group

Experimental group

Description:

To develop the intervention strategies of hospitalized school-age children with IV placement, using photo book to further examine the effectiveness of reducing IV pain and fear.

Treatment:

Device: Photo book