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Not Yet RecruitingNCT06833905
Combining Virtual Reality and Hypnosis to Alleviate Chronic Pain in Elderly Patients with Hand Arthritis
Combining Virtual Reality and Hypnosis to Alleviate Chronic Pain in Elderly Patients with Hand Arthritis: a Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial
- Status
- Not Yet Recruiting
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 80 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Ciusss de L'Est de l'Île de Montréal · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 100 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The goal of this pilot randomized clinical trial is to test the efficacy of an intervention combining virtual reality and hypnosis on decreasing pain and improving quality of life in elderly patients with hand arthritis. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does the intervention allow for an improvement of patient reported outcomes related to pain and quality of life? * Does the intervention allow for an improvement of physiological variables related to pain? Researchers will compare intervention group to a passive control group (i.e., waiting list with treatment as usual). Participants in the intervention group will be provided a virtual reality headset allowing them to beneficiate from the virtual reality and hypnosis modules.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Virtual reality: Beach | Session 1 or 2 (counterbalanced): Exposure to a beach landscape |
| BEHAVIORAL | Virtual Reality: Forest | Session 1 or 2 (counterbalanced): Exposure to a forest landscape |
| BEHAVIORAL | Hypnosis: Magic Hand | Session 3 or 4 (counterbalanced): Exposure to a hypnosis technique: the magic hand |
| BEHAVIORAL | Hypnosis: Pain Manipulation | Session 3 or 4 (counterbalanced): Exposure to a hypnosis technique: manipulating the pain |
| BEHAVIORAL | Session 1bis - 1 week | Repetition of the Session 1 one week after Session 4 |
| BEHAVIORAL | Follow-up | Repetition of the Session 1 three weeks after Session 4 |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2025-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2025-09-01
- Completion
- 2025-09-01
- First posted
- 2025-02-19
- Last updated
- 2025-03-19
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT06833905. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.