NCT04685486

Virtual Reality for Pain Management in Burn Patients

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is a randomized proof-of-concept study to assess the efficacy of Virtual Reality (VR) vs standard of care in 50 adult patients in the New York Presbyterian Burn Unit. The participants who are randomized to receive the virtual reality intervention will also receive opioids, which is the standard of care and is known to be effective. Participants will be randomly assigned to two groups. The first group will receive VR during their painful procedure (e.g., wound dressing changes, physical therapy etc.) in addition to the standard of care. The other group will receive standard of care (and no VR).

Conditions

• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Virtual Reality	Immersive and interactive game played through a portable head-mounted display as a distraction mechanism

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-01
• Primary completion: 2026-04-01
• Completion: 2026-05-01
• First posted: 2020-12-28
• Last updated: 2025-08-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States