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VR Usage in Non-Invasive Surgical Sub-Specialty Procedures

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03464955

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Official title

Virtual Reality Usage in Non-Invasive Surgical Sub-Specialty Procedures

Brief summary

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Preprocedural, preoperative, and prevascular access anxiety in pediatric patients has been previously shown to increase the likelihood of family stressors, agitation, sleep disturbances, and negative behavioral changes. The purpose of this study is to determine if a non-invasive distracting device (Virtual Reality (VR) headset, Augmented Reality (AR) headset, or bed mounted Video Projection unit (i.e. BERT, Bedside EnterRtainment Theater)) is more effective than the standard of care (i.e., no technology based distraction) for preventing anxiety before non-invasive surgical sub-specialty procedures among children during out-patient clinic visits. Examples of the most common procedures include, but are not limited to gastrostomy tube exchanges, suture removals, dressing changes, foley insertions, EEG set up, chest tube removals, cast removals, pin removals and other similar procedures. (The investigators refer to these procedures under an umbrella term of non-invasive surgical subspecialty procedures). The anticipated primary outcome will be reduction of child's anxiety during and after procedures.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT03464955
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
Stanford University
Other
Enrollment
291 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
2 Years to 18 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Oct 15, 2017
Primary completion
Jun 29, 2023
Completion
Jul 10, 2023
Last update posted
Sep 27, 2023

2017 – 2023

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford Palo Alto California 94304

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