Use of Virtual Reality for Pediatric Minor Surgical Procedures

Virtual Reality Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluation of Technology-Based Distractions In Pediatric Patients During General Surgery Minor Procedures

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04125004
• Other study ID #: 52692
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 8, 2020
• Est. completion date: March 1, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: March 2021
• Source: Stanford University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This project is looking to use virtual reality for minor general surgery procedures in addition to local anesthesia instead of general anesthesia.

Description:

Study population. Patients ages 7-18 undergoing minor surgical procedures at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital will be recruited. Minor surgical procedures include hormone implant placement/removal/exchange, cecostomy tube exchange, incision and drainage of superficial soft tissue abscesses excluding the perineum and buttock, excision of benign masses <2cm on the extremity (e.g. sebaceous cyst, pilomatricoma, lipoma, etc), and foreign body removal from superficial wounds. Exclusion criteria include those with significant cognitive impairment, history of motion sickness, history of seizures, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) <15, currently taking anxiety medication or narcotics, facial trauma, clinically unstable or require urgent/emergent intubation, claustrophobia, and visual or auditory impairment. The investigators aim to enroll at least 200 patients into the study.

Intervention. Research coordinators will recruit patients and their families prior to their schedule procedures. Informed consent and assent will be obtained from participants and their caregivers when a patient is a minor. Demographic information will be collected from all participants. Patients will complete pre-procedural survey for pain and anxiety. Parents will complete a survey that documents their perception of their child's anxiety level. Patients will be randomly assigned to a treatment arm.

Patients assigned to the general anesthesia arm will have a child life specialist in the pre-procedural period per hospital routine. Anesthesia will be administered at the discretion of the anesthesiologist. Once the procedure is completed, the patient will recover and be monitored in the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) per hospital guidelines.

Patients assigned to the virtual reality arm will be instructed on how to use the handheld system. A trained research coordinator or child life specialist will be with the patient during the procedure to help with any issues that may arise. They will document any interfering behaviors during the procedure. After the procedure, the patient will be monitored in the PACU per hospital guidelines.

All patients will complete the post-procedural survey for pain and anxiety. Patients, parents and the surgeon will also complete satisfaction surveys.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: March 1, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: March 1, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 7 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• less than 18 years of age

• parental consent/patient assent

• undergoing minor procedure(s)

Exclusion Criteria:

• participants and patients who do not consent

• have significant cognitive impairment

• have a history of severe motion sickness

• currently have nausea

• history of seizures or currently experiencing seizures

• have visual or auditory impairment

• clinically unstable or require urgent/emergent intervention and/or American Society of Anesthesiologist class 4 or 5

• history of claustrophobia

• Glasgow Coma Scale <15

• currently taking anxiety medication

• currently taking narcotics

• facial trauma

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• General Anesthesia
• Virtual Reality

Intervention

Device:
• Samsung Virtual Reality Headset
Patients will pick a game or feature from the virtual reality headset to use during their procedure

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Lucile Packard Children's Hospital	Palo Alto	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Stanford University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (2)

Hicks CL, von Baeyer CL, Spafford PA, van Korlaar I, Goodenough B. The Faces Pain Scale-Revised: toward a common metric in pediatric pain measurement. Pain. 2001 Aug;93(2):173-183. doi: 10.1016/S0304-3959(01)00314-1. — View Citation

McMurtry CM, Noel M, Chambers CT, McGrath PJ. Children's fear during procedural pain: preliminary investigation of the Children's Fear Scale. Health Psychol. 2011 Nov;30(6):780-8. doi: 10.1037/a0024817. Epub 2011 Aug 1. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Completion of procedure	Can the procedure be completed without general anesthesia or procedure sedation. Surgeons will be provided with a self-report survey documenting completion of the procedure. This will be assessed by the surgeon completing the procedure who will answer via questionnaire.	2 years
Secondary	Change in Children's Fear Scale	The Children's Fear Scale (McMurty et al. 2011) is a self-reported scale that uses cartoon depictions of faces to quantify on a 0-4 scale how scared a child is at the given moment	2 years
Secondary	Pain Catastrophizing Scale for Parents	Parents will complete a modified Pain Catastrophizing Scale for Parents (PCS-P) before and after the procedure. This survey identifies the thoughts and feelings of the parent in relation to the pain their child may experience during the procedure. Scores range from 1 (not at all) to 5 (very much).	2 years
Secondary	Change in Faces Pain Scale	The Face Pain Scale (Hicks et. al., 2001) is a self-reported scale that uses cartoon depictions of faces to quantify on a scale 0-10 scale how pain a child is experiencing at a given moment.	2 years
Secondary	Caregiver's satisfaction of procedure	A satisfaction survey will be provided to caregivers which will document how satisfied they were using the intervention, if they believed it helped them, if they would choose to use the intervention again and if they would recommend the intervention.	2 years
Secondary	Clinician Satisfaction Survey	Surgeons will be provided with a self-report survey asking their satisfaction with the technology, the patients' immersion with the technology, and the desire for use in future procedures based on a 1-5 scale.	2 years
Secondary	Cost difference between general anesthesia and virtual reality	Hospital cost data for the procedure will be collected. The difference in cost for patients using general anesthesia versus using virtual reality will then be calculated	2 years
Secondary	Change in Anxiety Scale	Participants will fill out a survey to document their anxiety during and after the procedure. Anxiety will be measured on a visual analogue scale using the Childhood Anxiety Meter (0-10) where participants will fill in a scale of how anxious they were during and after the procedure. Higher values represent a worse outcome (i.e. higher level of anxiety).	2 years