Virtual Reality pain psychology therapy as non-pharmacological analgesia for pain experienced in chest trauma patients (The VIPER-T study)

Not Applicable

• Conditions: chest trauma; Anaesthesiology - Pain management; Injuries and Accidents - Other injuries and accidents

• Registration Number: ACTRN12620000168954
• Lead Sponsor: Dr Alwin Chuan

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2020-02-17
• Last Update Posted: 24 February 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

no head injuries affecting cognition or behavioural state

- Chest Trauma Score greater than or equal to 4, representing significant chest trauma

Exclusion Criteria

- Insufficient written English language proficiency to complete questionnaires.

- Insufficient verbal English language proficiency to interact with the VR software avatar.

- Psychological or psychiatric illness not stabilised with therapy and/or medications.

- pre-existing cognitive impairment or delirium.

- Patients in chronic pain, defined as requiring opioid medication doses equivalent to greater than or equal to 20mg oral morphine daily dose equivalent (oMEDD), averaged over the previous week prior to admission to hospital.

- intubated patients in ICU.

- patients requiring continuous non-invasive positive pressure ventilatory support.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified