Status:
UNKNOWN
A Study of the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Relaxation Combined With Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Morphine for Those Undergoing Burn Dressing Changes
Lead Sponsor:
Bayside Health
Conditions:
Anxiety
Pain
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-80 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a sub-population of patients with burn injuries needing dressing changes respond to virtual reality (VR) utilising relaxation themes with improved pain...
Detailed Description
Pain associated with burn dressing changes does not arise purely from a physical source; it is also commonly influenced by psychological factors. The anticipation that accompanies a dressing change ha...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Burn injury
- Scheduled for painful dressing changes
- Conscious
- Comprehension of PCA and virtual reality device
- Comprehension of the English language
Exclusion
- Patient refusal
- Psychotic disease
- Paranoid disease
- Unstable dissociative disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Phobias relevant to water/drowning
- Epilepsy/propensity to fitting
- Morphine allergy
- Acute brain syndrome
- Chronic brain syndrome
- Physically unable to administer PCA
- Severe burns involving the head
- Visual impairment
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2004
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
End Date :
Estimated Enrollment :
90 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00163917
Start Date
September 1 2004
Last Update
March 15 2007
Active Locations (1)
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The Alfred Hospital
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3181