Patient Receptiveness to Using Virtual Reality

Completed

Conditions studied: Pain, Anxiety

In brief

This study will evaluate the acceptability, use, and general effect that exposure to virtual reality has on hospitalized patients reporting at least one discomfort including recent or current moderate-severe pain.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03528668

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

89

Starts

2018-04-16

Expected to finish

2018-10-12

Last updated by the study team

2021-02-24

Who can join

Age: 20 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• English-speaking
• Inpatients on a general care unit
• Current or recorded moderate to severe pain in past 24 hours

You may not qualify if…

• Receiving palliative/end of life care;
• Admitted for treatment of psychiatric or mental health disorder
• History of seizure or stroke
• Legally blind or deaf
• Moderate or severe cognitive impairment
• Head wounds or bandages
• On isolation precautions.

Where it is running

• Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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