NCT02427659

VR High Tech Pain Control Burn Wound Care

High Technology Pain Control During Burn Wound Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) · NIH
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Using virtual reality as a form of distraction for pain during wound care. Virtual reality involves looking into a set of goggles and then moving through a computer-simulated world.

Detailed description

This study has three different groups. Patients will be randomly assigned to one of three groups (two treatments and one control). Treatment for Group 1 is Virtual Reality Distraction during wound care. Group 2 will listen to an audio recording called "Sounds of Nature". Group 3 will be the control group. Subjects in all three groups will receive the following questionnaires: Graphic Rating Scale McGill Short-Form pain questionnaire Sullivan Catastrophization scale (only on Day 1/Baseline) The Nurse GRS

Conditions

• Pain
• Burn

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Virtual Reality Distraction	The subjects will receive a 20-minute Virtual Reality Distraction (VRD) during their wound care procedure. The nurse will be doing their wound care.
BEHAVIORAL	Audio (sound of nature)	The subjects will listen to an audio recording called "Sounds of Nature" during their wound care.
BEHAVIORAL	Control standard nurse wound care	The subjects will receive their standard care during wound care. The nurse will be doing the wound care.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-11-01
• Primary completion: 2016-11-01
• Completion: 2017-08-01
• First posted: 2015-04-28
• Last updated: 2019-03-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States