Feasibility study on virtual reality for patients with chronic pai
- Conditions
- F45.41
- Registration Number
- DRKS00032471
- Lead Sponsor
- Interdisziplinäres Schmerzzentrum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 75
Patients with chronic pain who participate in a multimodal pain therapy
- existing pregnancy
- Diseases associated with balance disorders or dizziness
- epilepsy
- migraine with aura
- significant visual or hearing impairment
- Injuries to the eyes, face or neck that make it difficult to use VR comfortably (e.g. open wounds or rashes on the face).
- Stroke, transient ischaemic attack or surgery to the cervical spine or skull in the last 6 months.
- Implanted electrical devices (e.g. neurostimulators, pacemakers)
- Susceptibility to claustrophobia
- Severe psychological / psychiatric disorders in the past history (e.g. delusional experience, sensory delusions or ego disturbances)
- Unable to participate in the study and complete questionnaires due to cognitive or language difficulties.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Experiences with VR (among others via the German Igroup Presence Questionnaire IPQ) and symptoms of cyber-sickness (surveyed with the Simulation Sickness Questionnaire SSQ)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Confounding variables (e.g. experience with relaxation exercises; intensity of relaxation and pain as well as diagnoses)