Virtual Reality on Pain and Fear Level During Kirschner Wires (K-Wires) Removal in Children

Ondokuz Mayıs University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Fear of Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: virtual reality applied group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06246877

K Teli

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will be conducted to examine the effect of virtual reality applied during K-wire removal and dressing on the pain and fear levels that develop due to the procedure in children aged 7-12 years who apply to the orthopedic outpatient clinic.

Full description

Technology-based methods have now begun to be used to control anxiety and prevent pain that may occur before, during and after diagnosis and treatment procedures in children.

Virtual reality (VR), which is among the technological products, can be used in non-pharmacological methods as well as pharmacological methods.

It has been observed that VR, especially in children, creates an analgesic effect by mainly distracting the pain centers in the brain and evokes positive emotions with an anxiolytic effect.Since children do not want to see the procedures to be performed on them, virtual reality used during the procedure is one of the methods of diverting attention from the environment they are in. This study will be conducted to examine the effect of virtual reality applied during K-wire removal and dressing on the pain and fear levels that develop due to the procedure in children aged 7-12 years who apply to the orthopedic outpatient clinic.

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being a child between the ages of 7-12 who will have the K wire removed
• The child is not using glasses
• The child must be at a cognitive development level that can respond to video selection.

Exclusion criteria

• Having a disease that causes chronic pain
• The child must have used medication that would have an analgesic effect in the last 24 hours before the application.
• The child is wearing glasses
• The child has a mental or neurological disability

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

virtual reality applied group

Experimental group

Description:

Before the K-wire is removed and dressed, the three-dimensional video that the child likes and wants to watch will be placed on virtual reality glasses and attached to the child. During the procedure, the child will be allowed to watch videos through virtual reality glasses.

Treatment:

Behavioral: virtual reality applied group

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

During the removal and dressing of the wire, the child's attention will be diverted by asking some questions (where she lives, the name of the school she attends, what grade she attends, etc.).