NCT04548635

VR for Burn Dressing Changes at Home

Mobile Phone Virtual Reality Game for Pediatric Home Burn Dressing Pain Management

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2 / Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: Nationwide Children's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will evaluate the impact of our smartphone-based Virtual Reality Pain Alleviation Tool (VR-PAT) during the repeated at-home burn dressing changes of children (5-17 years) with a burn injury in comparison with a control group of children with a burn injury who will not use VR-PAT during at-home burn dressing changes. We hypothesize that children using VR-PAT will report less pain during their dressing changes.

Detailed description

Subjects will be randomly assigned to either the VR-PAT intervention group or Control group. Subjects and caregivers in both groups will perform daily dressing changes (as prescribed by their physician) and afterward will answer questions about their pain and any medications used. Subjects and caregivers in the intervention group will answer additional questions about their experience using the VR-PAT, ease of use, and helpfulness. Surveys will be repeated with each dressing changes for one week.

Conditions

• Burns
• Acute Pain
• Procedural Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	VR-PAT	Smartphone-based Virtual Reality Pain Alleviation Tool (VR-PAT) via a lightweight, mobile VR headset

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-05
• Primary completion: 2021-06-18
• Completion: 2021-06-18
• First posted: 2020-09-14
• Last updated: 2024-04-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States