Virtual Reality Pain Control During Burn Wound Care (VRPT/H2O/RT)

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3; Phase 2

Conditions: Burn

Treatments: Behavioral: Virtual Reality Distraction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NIH

Identifiers

NCT00261690

13289-C

R01GM042725 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Using Virtual Reality as a form of Distraction during Burn Care.

Full description

The purpose of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of virtual reality (a form of distraction) in order to reduce patients' procedural burn pain.

Enrollment: 184 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Able to complete subjective evaluations of pain
• English-speaking
• Not demonstrating delirium, psychosis, or any form of Organic Brain Disorder
• Able to communicate orally

Exclusion criteria

• Incapable of indicating subjective evaluation of pain
• Non-English-speaking
• Severe head or neck injury or other medical conditions that prohibit patient from wearing VR helmet
• Demonstrating delirium, psychosis, or Organic Brain Disorder
• Unable to communicate verbally
• Significant developmental disability
• Extreme susceptibility to motion sickness
• Reports having no problem with pain during wound care.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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184 participants in 1 patient group

1

Experimental group

Description:

Virtual Reality distraction

Treatment:

Behavioral: Virtual Reality Distraction