NCT03681730

Virtual Reality vs Standard-of-Care for Comfort During Intravenous Catheterization

A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Virtual Reality vs Standard-of-Care for Comfort During Intravenous Catheterization

• 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

Children often need an intravenous catheter placement for delivery of fluids and medications, a procedure associated with pain and anxiety. In the Emergency Department topical anesthetics are frequently used. 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 topical anaesthetics during IV placement procedure. Investigators will measure pain, anxiety and satisfaction, amount of analgesics used and the level of success in placing the IV and compare between the two groups.

Conditions

• Intravenous Catheterization

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Virtual Reality	Participants wear a Virtual Reality headset that consists of a ASUS phone and a VOX+ Z3 3D Virtual Reality Headset. The phone runs the VR Roller Coaster app to produce the virtual environment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-05-02
• Primary completion: 2019-05-01
• Completion: 2019-05-01
• First posted: 2018-09-24
• Last updated: 2018-09-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada