NCT02729259

H2O VR for Burns 2015

Water Friendly Virtual Reality for Burns

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 56 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) · NIH
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is designed to find additional methods to reduce pain during wound care. In this study the investigators use virtual reality (a form of distraction) in addition to pain medication during a burn wound care.

Detailed description

This study will employ a randomized within-subjects design. There are three different conditions in this study. By randomization, the participants will experience at least two of the conditions and likely all three, depending on the number of their wound care sessions. All subjects will always receive all their usual pain medications for all treatment conditions. The three conditions are: High Tech Virtual Reality (VRD), Low Tech Virtual Reality (Nature Slides), and standard wound care (no VR). The subjects will be randomly assigned to receive some portions of their wound care sessions during High Tech Virtual Reality (VRD), some portions during Low Tech Virtual Reality (Nature Slides), and some portions with standard wound care, no virtual reality. The treatment orders will be randomized. After each treatment condition the investigators will ask subjects one pain question about their pain intensity during the most recent treatment condition.

Conditions

• Pain
• Burn

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Virtual Reality Snowworld	The subjects will receive Virtual Reality Snowworld during their wound care procedure. The nurse will be doing their wound care.
BEHAVIORAL	Virtual Reality slides of nature	The subjects will receive Virtual Reality Slides of Nature during their wound care procedure. The nurse will be doing 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: 2015-10-01
• Primary completion: 2020-06-01
• Completion: 2020-06-01
• First posted: 2016-04-06
• Last updated: 2020-06-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States