Virtual Reality for pain and fear relief in wound care
Phase 4
- Conditions
- Burns and other traumatic, infectious, or immune-mediated skin and soft tissue lesionsInjury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN16621834
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitair Ziekenhuis Leuven
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Ongoing
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 200
Inclusion Criteria
1. Mental age =6 years
2. Need for wound care
3. Admitted to E519 (Burn center unit) or ad-hoc patients selected in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Outpatient Burn Care, or Emergency Department
4. Able to communicate in Dutch, English, French language
Exclusion Criteria
1. Deaf
2. Blind
3. Schizophrenia, advanced dementia, dissociative disorder, or serious claustrophobia
3. Lesions exclusively in the facial area, precluding VR application during wound care
4. Permanent hypoesthesia in the affected area
5. No informed consent given
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <br> 1. Proportion of patients successfully completing procedures with VR within all patients admitted measured from eCRF records collected at the end of the study<br> 2. Fraction of wound care procedures successfully conducted with VR within all procedures measured from eCRF records collected at the end of the study<br> 3. Predictability of successful VR based on psychological variables and baseline clinical characteristics measured using scored in real time by the study psychologist or study nurse in the eCRF after the procedure<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method