NCT00569647

Preoperative Anxiety in Pediatric Reconstructive Burn Patients: The Role of Virtual Reality Hypnosis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: Shriners Hospitals for Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Children with burns often require repeated reconstructive surgeries. These children tend to develop high levels of anxiety before coming to the operating room. Preoperative sedation, while somewhat effective in relieving this anxiety, has a number of side effects. The researchers hypothesized that preoperative anxiety could be effectively reduced by the utilization of a device which induces a relaxing hypnotic state through emmersion in a virtual reality environment.

Detailed description

The virtual reality environment is created by a Virtual Reality Hypnosis (VRH) device. The patient wears a headset which contains video and audio display. A twenty minute program is viewed, which guides the patient into a relaxed state via soothing audio and video input.

Conditions

• Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Virtual Reality Hypnosis	Use of virtual reality headset to induce hypnotic state
DEVICE	Placebo	no use of device

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-11-01
• Completion: 2006-05-01
• First posted: 2007-12-07
• Last updated: 2007-12-07