VR for Patients With Chronic Pain (Wait & Work)

University of Twente

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Treatments

Device: VR (Reducept)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06312735

230405

Details and patient eligibility

About

This cluster-RCT evaluates the effect of therapeutic virtual reality (VR) on patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) who are on a waiting list to receive pain treatment. The used VR application, Reducept, offers pain education and pain management techniques. This home-based, stand-alone, immersive VR intervention was used daily for four weeks in the intervention group. The control group received standard care (no treatment). Primary outcome measure for this study was health-related quality of life, secondary outcome measures included various pain-related variables (e.g. pain self-efficacy and acceptance. Outcome variables will be measured after four weeks and follow-up after six months.

Enrollment

53 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

aged 18 years or older
suffering from primary or secondary CMP
finished with biomedical diagnostics and treatment
open to biopsychosocial treatment
willing and capable of complying with study procedures.

Exclusion criteria

not able to finish the VR intervention due to physical (e.g. visual impairment), mental (e.g. severe sensitivity to stimuli) or practical problems (e.g. insufficient tech-literacy)
unable to finish Dutch questionnaires.