NCT04595721

Comparison of Physical Versus Visual Distraction in the Reduction of Pain During Local Anesthesia

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare physical versus visual distractions to determine which technique reduces perceived pain better during local anesthesia injections.

Detailed description

Before the local anesthesia injection, patients will be asked to give a preliminary VAS score based on what level of pain 0-10 they anticipate they will feel during the local anesthesia injection. Following the injection the participant will be asked to quantify the pain felt during the injection on a 0-10 Visual analog scale (VAS). The VAS scores will only be taken from the first injection of the appointment. Participants will be asked their gender, race, age, geographic location they spent most of their lives as well. Participants will be de-identified and randomly assigned a number that will be recorded along with their collected data on a two-factor, password protected web server. Information collected during this study may be used for further analysis and publication.

Conditions

• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Hidden object	Participant will be instructed to look at the hidden object image on the overhead light to look for a number of objects and observe the image.
BEHAVIORAL	Stress ball	Participants will be handed a single-use, squeezable stress ball and instructed to squeeze the stress ball.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-03-01
• Primary completion: 2022-07-01
• Completion: 2022-07-01
• First posted: 2020-10-20
• Last updated: 2022-04-20