Virtual Reality for Pain Management in Advanced Heart Failure
CompletedNot applicableNCT04572425
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The purpose of this research project is to evaluate the impact of virtual reality therapy on mitigating heart failure pain in hospitalized patients with heart failure and compare this impact to that of 2-dimensional guided imagery distraction therapy.
Study details
- Official title
- Pilot Study to Evaluate Virtual Reality for Pain Management in Advanced Heart Failure
- Conditions
- Heart Failure，Congestive
- Acute Pain
- Chronic Pain
- Interventions
- Other: Guided imagery
- Other: Virtual reality
- Sponsor
- Medstar Health Research Institute
- Start date
- 2018-10-01
- Primary completion
- 2020-03-29
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * hospitalized at study institution * primary diagnosis of ACC/AHA Stage C or D heart failure * reports pain on 0-10 Likert scale at least 4/10 or greater Exclusion Criteria (any of the following): * participant already uses virtual reality for personal use * intractable nausea/vomiting * history of motion sickness * history of seizures or epilepsy * have cranial structure abnormalities that prevent use of VR headset * currently enrolled in a palliative care or pain management study * on contact isolation
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04572425