Recruiting

Virtual RealityVirtual Reality for Burn Wound Care Pain Control

Sponsor:

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Code:

NCT00663013

Conditions

Pain

Anxiety

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Virtual Reality

Study Details

Brief summary:

The investigators propose to study the effects of virtual reality (VR) on patients' pain perception during burn wound care. Such variables include psychiatric diagnosis and standard pain coping (i.e. pain catastophizer vs. non-pain catastrophizer).Aims: The investigators intend to evaluate the use of virtual reality in pain distraction for burn patients undergoing burn wound care. To that end our aims are: 1) To determine if pain perception will be less during the portion of the procedure in which the patient is immersed in the VR session in comparison to the portion of wound care which will occur without VR immersion. 2) To determine if anticipatory anxiety will be less for the portion of wound care that includes the virtual reality in comparison to the portion without virtual reality. 3) To determine if current psychiatric diagnosis, especially acute stress disorder and depression, is related to higher pain perception and greater decrease in pain with the virtual reality distraction. 4) To determine if being a "pain catastrophizer" is related to higher pain perception and greater benefits from the

Conditions

Pain

Anxiety

Study ID

NCT00663013

Start date

Oct, 2007

Status verified date

Jan, 2011

Completion date

May, 2010

Anticipated

Primary completion date

May, 2010

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

Age 12-100years
Minimum burn wound size of 2% total body surface area (TBSA) excluding head and dominant hand
Be able to sit upright independently in bed
Minimum pain rating of 4/10 on a Visual Analog Scale (only using the most painful extremity).
Able to consent to the study

Exclusion Criteria:

Known history of motion sickness
Seizures
Migraines
Current psychosis, dementia, or delirium
Current blindness and/or deafness that significantly affects their ability to experience the VR

Study Design

Enrollment

12 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Crossover

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

active comparator: 1

The first treatment session will involve 5-7 minutes of burn wound care while distracted by VR, and 5-7 minutes of burn wound care without the distraction of VR. The second session of burn wound care (performed within the next 3 days) will involve 5-7 minutes of burn wound care without the distraction of VR, and 5-7 minutes of burn wound care with the distraction of VR. The treatment order will be randomized.

active comparator: 2

Interventions

Virtual Reality

Virtual reality (VR) gives patients an illusion of going into the 3-D computer generated environment/virtual world. During VR, the subject wears a head-mounted virtual reality helmet that positions two goggle-sized miniature LCD computer screens close to the subject's eyes. Position tracking devices keep the computer informed of changes in the patient's head location. An electro-magnetic head orientation device feeds the x, y, z coordinates of the patient's head to the computer, which can quickly change what the patient sees in virtual reality accordingly. The scenery in VR changes as the patient moves her head orientation (e.g., virtual objects in front of the patient in VR get closer as the patient, wearing the VR helmet, leans forward in the real world).

Primary outcome measure

pain perception [ Time Frame: immediate ]
anticipatory anxiety [ Time Frame: immediate ]
current psychiatric diagnosis, is related to pain [ Time Frame: immediate ]
"pain catastrophizing" is related to higher pain perception and greater benefits from the VR [ Time Frame: immediate ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Roger W Yurt, MD FACS

2127465410 ryurt@med.cornell.edu

Angela Rabbitts, RN MS

2127465881 anr2002@med.cornell.edu

Locations

New York Presbyterian Hospital, WRH Burn Center

Recruiting

New York, New York, United States, 10065

Contacts

Roger W Yurt, MD FACS

212-746-5410 ryurt@med.cornell.edu

Principal Investigator:

Roger W Yurt, MD FACS

More Information

Sponsor

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Last update posted

Jan 4, 2011

Last verified

Jan, 2011

Keywords

burn
pain
anxiety

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Weill Medical College of Cornell University on 2011-01-04.