NCT03681717

Virtual Reality vs. Standard-of-Care for Comfort During Laceration Repair

A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Virtual Reality vs. Standard-of-Care for Comfort During Laceration Repair

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of British Columbia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Lacerations are a common reason for presentation to the Emergency Department and children needing laceration repair with sutures are experiencing pain and anxiety. Virtual Reality (VR) is an immersive experience using sight, sound, and position sense. Using VR may enhance distraction during the painful procedure and may reduce attention to pain. This study will randomize children (6 - 16 years old) to receive Virtual Reality or standard of care in addition to pharmacoanalgesia during a laceration repair procedure. Investigators will measure pain, anxiety, satisfaction, amount of analgesia and the length of procedure and compare between the two groups.

Conditions

• Laceration

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Virtual Reality	Participants wear a Virtual Reality headset that consists of a ASUS phone and a ReTrack Utopia 360 VR Headset. The phone runs the VR Roller Coaster app to produce the virtual environment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-01
• Primary completion: 2019-01-31
• Completion: 2019-01-31
• First posted: 2018-09-24
• Last updated: 2018-09-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada