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Clinical Trials/NCT06504602
NCT06504602
Not yet recruiting
Not Applicable

Pain Elimination and Anxiety Control Through Experiential Virtual Reality

Children's Hospital Los Angeles0 sites96 target enrollmentSeptember 1, 2024

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Procedural Pain
Sponsor
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Enrollment
96
Primary Endpoint
Mean Change from Baseline in Pain Scores on Faces Pain Scale - Revised after IV Placement
Status
Not yet recruiting
Last Updated
last year

Overview

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to determine if active virtual reality is more effective than passive virtual reality and standard of care distraction in decreasing pain in children, from 8 to 21 years old, undergoing intravenous placement in emergency department. The main question[s] it aims to answer [is/are]:

  • Will active virtual reality reduce pain score on Faces Pain Scale - revised and measure of heart rate during intravenous placement for children ages 8 years old to 21 years old more than passive virtual reality and standard of care?
  • Will active virtual reality reduce anxiety score on Visual Analog Scale - revised and measure of heart rate during intravenous placement for children ages 8 years old to 21 years old more than passive virtual reality and standard of care?

If there is a comparison group: Researchers will compare active group to passive group and standard of care.

Participants will randomized into active virtual reality, passive virtual reality or standard of care arms.

Registry
clinicaltrials.gov
Start Date
September 1, 2024
End Date
March 15, 2025
Last Updated
last year
Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Parallel
Sex
All

Investigators

Responsible Party
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator

Matan Paret

Principal Investigator

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Children and adolescents 8-21 years old undergoing IV placement .
  • Ability to understand study procedures and to comply with them for the entire length of the study.
  • Participants and caregiver speaking English or Spanish.

Exclusion Criteria

  • Participants with psychiatric, developmental delay, visual or auditory deficits that would interfere with virtual reality gameplay (decision based on treating clinicians' evaluation).
  • Participants receiving narcotics, opioids, or anxiolytics 8 hours prior (Tylenol and ibuprofen do not count).
  • Participants with pain so significant that consent/assent is not possible (decision based on treating clinician evaluation).
  • Critically ill Participants (ESI 1).

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Mean Change from Baseline in Pain Scores on Faces Pain Scale - Revised after IV Placement

Time Frame: 5 minutes before, immediately after procedure

Pain score on Faces Pain Scale - Revised will be assessed 5 minutes before and immediately after procedure. The minimum score is 0, and the maximum score is 10. Higher scores correlate to a worse outcome (more pain).

Secondary Outcomes

  • Mean Change from Baseline in Anxiety Scores on Visual Analog Scale after IV Placement(5 minutes before, immediately after procedure)
  • Mean Change from Baseline in Heart Rate after IV Placement(5 minutes before, during, and immediately after procedure)

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