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NCT number NCT03686176
Other study ID # IRB00161331
Secondary ID
Status Terminated
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date July 5, 2019
Est. completion date March 30, 2020

Study information

Verified date July 2020
Source Johns Hopkins University
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.


Description:

Pediatric emergency rooms and hospitals are anxiety provoking and often painful places for pediatric patients and families. Children of all ages present to the Johns Hopkins emergency room and are admitted to the hospital for a wide range of medical conditions, many of which require medical interventions. Many of these interventions are the source of anxiety and pain, including burn debridement or dressing changes, laceration repair, or intravenous (IV) line placement. The standard of care to reduce pain and improve coping during pediatric procedures ranges from no intervention to support from child life specialists.

As an adjunct to the existing methods of promoting comfort during painful procedures, non-invasive virtual reality (VR) therapy is showing promise as a means of distraction and coping with various medical procedures. The user is transported into a relaxing/distracting VR environment that diverts user's attention away from pain and anxiety. VR has demonstrated efficacy in the reduction of pain and anxiety experienced by individuals undergoing anxiety and pain inducing procedures.While there is early data from small or narrow populations that show some improvement in pain and anxiety with VR use during pediatric procedures, some studies show no improvement. No studies to date have used objective outcome measures of coping, which may be more clinically meaningful.

The investigators propose to fill this gap in the literature with a randomized, controlled, un-blinded study of coping and distress between virtual reality engagement and child life support in pediatric patients undergoing painful medical procedures.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Terminated
Enrollment 64
Est. completion date March 30, 2020
Est. primary completion date March 30, 2020
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 7 Years to 26 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

1. 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

2. 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.

Exclusion Criteria:

- 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

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Other:
Virtual Reality
A child life specialist will fit the patient with the goggles, select a game, and initiate play once the medical procedure begins.

Locations

Country Name City State
United States Johns Hopkins Children's Center Baltimore Maryland

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Johns Hopkins University The Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Change in Patient-Reported Pain During the Procedure Pain described on visual analog scale (0-10), or Wong-Faces Scale (0-10) with 0 being no pain and 10 being worst pain. Change in pain scores (calculated during procedure - pre-procedure) ranges from -10 to 10. A negative number signifies reduced pain during the procedure. Baseline and Immediately post-procedure, up to 15 minutes
Primary Change in Patient-Reported Anxiety During Procedure Patient anxiety after procedures was described on a visual analog scale (0-10). This is a scale of range 0-10 with 0 being no anxiety and 10 being maximum anxiety. Change in anxiety scores (calculated during procedure - pre-procedure) ranges from -10 to 10. A negative number signifies reduced anxiety during the procedure. Baseline and Immediately post-procedure, up to 15 minutes
Primary Change in Adult Perceived Pain During the Procedure Perceived pain ratings were obtained for caregivers after the procedure based on a 0-10 Likert rating scale with 0 representing the least pain and 10 representing the most. Change in pain scores (calculated during procedure - pre-procedure) ranges from -10 to 10. A negative number signifies reduced pain during the procedure. This measure was assessed in caregivers. Baseline and Immediately post-procedure, up to 15 minutes
Primary Change in Adult Perceived Anxiety During the Procedure The Subjective Units of Distress scale will be used to measure anxiety of subjects after procedures. This is a scale of 0-10 with 0 being no anxiety and 10 being maximum anxiety. Change in anxiety scores (calculated during procedure - pre-procedure) ranges from -10 to 10. A negative number signifies reduced anxiety during the procedure. This measure was assessed in caregivers. Baseline and Immediately post-procedure, up to 15 minutes
Primary Change in Adult's Own Anxiety During the Procedure Anxiety ratings were obtained for caregivers after the procedure based on a 0-10 Likert rating scale with 0 representing the least anxiety and 10 representing the most. Change in anxiety scores (calculated during procedure - pre-procedure) ranges from -10 to 10. A negative number signifies reduced anxiety during the procedure. This measure was assessed in caregivers. Baseline and Immediately post-procedure, up to 15 minutes
Primary Child and Adult Medical Procedure Interaction Scale (CAMPIS) Score Coping was measured using a modified CAMPIS-SF in both patients and caregivers.
CAMPIS-SF (Child-Adult Medical Procedure Interaction Scale-Short Form) is a behavior rating scale that documents distressing or coping behaviors exhibited in both children and the accompanying adult (parent/guardian). It has been validated to measure coping in children and adults during medical procedures. The CAMPIS-SF study used a 5-point Likert scale to document frequency of each code In order to account for frequency variance due to differences in procedure duration, we used a proportion-based metric validated for CAMPIS-R, and applied this to CAMPIS-SF codes. Proportions were calculated by summing the total number of an event type (e.g. child distress) and dividing by the total number of coded events (child distress plus child coping). This provided a proportion for each event type so that the proportion of child distress plus child coping events add up to 1.0 (range 0-1.0).
Immediately post-procedure, up to 15minutes
Secondary Duration of Procedure Duration of procedure in minutes will be assessed for each procedure. Immediately post-procedure, up to 20 minutes
Secondary Ease of Procedure as Assessed by a Likert Scale Ease of procedure will be assessed using a Likert scale completed by proceduralist. The Likert scale ranges from 0-10 with 0 being easy and 10 difficult. Immediately post-procedure, up to 15 minutes
Secondary Personnel Use for Immobilization This will be assessed using number of patients requiring immobilization during procedures. Immediately post-procedure, up to 15 minutes
Secondary Number of IV or Phlebotomy Attempts Number of IV or phlebotomy attempts until success will be counted (1 or 2+) in patients undergoing venipuncture procedures. Immediately post-procedure, up to 15 minutes
Secondary Pre-Procedure Nausea Symptoms The number of patients reporting nausea symptoms prior to the procedure Immediately pre-procedure (15minutes)
Secondary Pre-Procedure Cybersickness Symptoms Number of patients in the VR group reporting positive cybersickness symptoms prior to the procedure Immediately pre-procedure (15minutes)
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