VR for Pain Management During Adult Burn Dressing Change

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Burns; Pain

Treatments: Other: VR-based Pain Alleviation Tool (VR-PAT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04545229

2018H0257

Details and patient eligibility

About

A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of the VR-based Pain Alleviation Tool (VR-PAT) in reducing opioid pain medication use during adult burn dressing changes.

Full description

A pilot three group gender-balanced randomized clinical trial (RCT) among adult burn patients (18 years old or above) at OSU Medical Center Inpatient Burn Program. The intervention group will receive VR-PAT as a distraction tool during the dressing change procedure (active VR group) while the comparison groups will receive either a comparable passive VR distraction tool that uses the same hardware and visual/audio features, but requires no active interaction (Control Group 1), or no distraction at all (Control Group 2).

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Adult burn patient age 18-70
2. First admission for acute burn requiring dressing change
3. First admission for burn injury
4. Using Opioids for dressing changes
5. Burn is ≤ 4 days post burn

Exclusion criteria

1. Severe burn(s) on the face/head preventing utilization of VR
2. Cognitive/motor impairment preventing valid administration of study measures
3. Unable to communicate in English
4. Prisoners and patients who were pregnant
5. Patients admitted to the ICU

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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14 participants in 3 patient groups

Active VR-PAT

Experimental group

Description:

Active VR-based Pain Alleviation Tool (VR-PAT) group played smart phone VR-PAT during the burn dressing changes.

Treatment:

Other: VR-based Pain Alleviation Tool (VR-PAT)

Passive VR-PAT

Experimental group

Description:

Passive VR-based Pain Alleviation Tool (VR-PAT) group watched smart phone VR-PAT games without interaction during the burn dressing changes.

Treatment:

Other: VR-based Pain Alleviation Tool (VR-PAT)

Standard Care Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard care control group used regular distraction such as background music or no distraction.