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Main objective : Evaluate the effect of using a virtual reality mask during the blood test and pricks tests in allergic children aged from 7 to 13 years. Hypothesis : Using virtual reality mask during blood test and pricks tests for allergic kids from 7 to 13 would reduce anxiety and pain


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Investigation of food or respiratory allergy is based on prick tests and serum specific immunoglobulin E assays. The nurse often controls the blood test pain but during the skin tests, many children cry, feeling both fear and pain. This traumatic experience will in most cases be repeated during the child's allergic follow-up. To date, there are few effective means of limiting anxiety and pain associated with prick tests and therefore little research work on this subject. Immersion in virtual reality (VR) seems to be an interesting way of distraction for children from 7 to 13 years needing this treatment. Indeed, it makes it possible to saturate the sensorially of the child thus reducing the nociceptive perceptions and the anxiety. The choice of VR mask with pediatric program specific seems interesting for this children This is a randomized, open-label, two-armed parallel, multicenter therapeutic trial comparing an analgesic strategy using authorized medical devices (conventional strategy) with a virtual reality mask distraction technique for allergics tests in children from 7 to 13 years old hospitalized in the pediatric consultation of Clermont Ferrand University Hospital and in the day hospital of Saint-Etienne University Hospital The control arm is the local anesthetic cream (for the blood test) arm with distraction from nurse/parents +/-anesthesic and anxiolytic gas and the experimental arm is the local anesthetic cream + virtual reality mask distraction The nurse informs and obtains the consent of the child and his parents. Then she measures child's pain and anxiety before the care, during the blood test, at the third prick test and immediately after the care. She also notes the anxiety of the parents before and after the care. Finally, the satisfaction of the child, parents, nurses will be collected at the end of the care. After statistical analysis of these two arms, it will be possible to determine the value of the virtual reality mask to reduce the child's pain and anxiety during the pricks tests. ;


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NCT number NCT05378581
Study type Interventional
Source University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
Contact Lise LACLAUTRE
Phone +33473754963
Email promo_interne_drci@chu-clermontferrand.fr
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date September 23, 2022
Completion date June 2025

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