NCT03862573

Virtual Reality vs. Standard-of-Care for Comfort During Dental Procedures in Children

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

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of British Columbia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Children sometimes need dental procedures which can be painful and associated with child pain and anxiety. In addition to pain medication, distraction may help children cope with the pain. This may include interacting with books, TV, toys or videogames. 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 (4 - 16 years old) to receive Virtual Reality or standard of care in addition to local anesthetics during dental procedures. Pain, anxiety and satisfaction will be measured as well as the amount of analgesics used and the timing of the procedure. Outcome measures will be compared between the two groups.

Conditions

• Dental Procedures

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: 2019-03-31
• Primary completion: 2020-03-31
• Completion: 2020-03-31
• First posted: 2019-03-05
• Last updated: 2019-03-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada