Virtual Reality During Procedures in Pediatric Patients
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Conditions studied: Virtual Reality, Pediatrics
In brief
This stratified, randomized, controlled trial compared coping and distress between child life supported virtual reality engagement and child life support during painful procedures in the pediatric emergency department.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03686176
- Run by
- Johns Hopkins University
- People needed
- 64
- Starts
- 2019-07-05
- Expected to finish
- 2020-03-30
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-08-06
Who can join
Age: 7 and older, up to 26. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Pediatric patients requiring painful or anxiety inducing procedures:
- Burn debridement
- Burn dressing change
- Lactation repair
- Intravenous (IV) line placement or phlebotomy (blood draw)
- Abscess incision and drainage
- Fracture reduction and/or cast placement
- Implanted central venous port placement accessing
- Skin biopsies
- Subjects ages 7 to 26 years of age (age 26 is the upper limit treated at JHCC) Ages were chosen based on that previously published in the literature on pediatric patients with VR.
You may not qualify if…
- Patients with a known history of a seizure disorder.
- Patients with an active infection, burn, or trauma that interferes with the mask placement, and may include involvement of the periorbital skin, eyes, nasal bridge, external ear, and/or scalp or hair.
- Patients with Blindness.
- Developmental delay significant enough to interfere with the subject's ability to participate in the session, including autism spectrum disorders.
- Patients with active psychosis or exhibit signs of active intoxication.
- Known history of severe motion sickness
- Medical urgency (at the medical providers' discretion)
- Non-verbal children
- Children or parents/legal guardians who are non-English speakers
Where it is running
- Johns Hopkins Children's Center — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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