NCT05157893

Effects of Virtual Reality (VR) Based Distraction and Relaxation Therapy on Moderate and Severe Pain

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a prospective, single-arm, open, single-center clinical study. This study is a pilot study to explore the use of VR based distraction and relaxation therapy as an adjunctive analgesic method for Chinese patients with moderate to severe pain. After screening, patients with moderate to severe pain who meet the study inclusion criteria receive VR therapy for 15 minutes to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of VR therapy.

Conditions

• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Virtual reality based analgesic therapy	The intervention is a single 15 min VR therapy. The VR therapy is consisted of VR device and software. The model of VR device used is Pico Neo 3 Pro. The software run on the VR device delivers two types of contents: 1) A 7min of computer-generated 360 video of underwater scene with therapeutic music to distract patients' attention on pain and make patients passively relax. 2) An 8min guided relaxation in which patients are transported to seaside with narrative to achieve image and breathing relaxation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-01
• Primary completion: 2025-06-21
• Completion: 2025-12-21
• First posted: 2021-12-15
• Last updated: 2024-11-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China