ArticleJournal of child & adolescent trauma2021
Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Virtual Reality vs. Standard-of-Care During Pediatric Laceration Repair.
Article in Journal of child & adolescent trauma, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Virtual Reality vs. Standard-of-Care for Comfort During Laceration Repair
Use of Immersive Virtual Reality for Laceration Repairs in the Pediatric Emergency Department
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Equity implications of extended reality technologies for health and procedural anxiety: a systematic review and implementation-focused framework.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy of virtual reality for pain relief in medical procedures: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Virtual Reality Interventions for Pediatric Pain and Anxiety Management During Emergency Department Procedures: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2026Review
- Virtual reality for managing pain and fear and anxiety during pediatric needle procedures: an umbrella review.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2026Article
- Extended Reality (XR) in Pediatric Acute and Chronic Pain: Systematic Review and Evidence Gap Map.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2025Review
- Immersive Virtual Reality for Pain and Anxiety Management Associated with Medical Procedures in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Bringing Virtual Reality to Mainstream Pediatric Care.Journal of patient-centered research and reviews · 2024Article
- Pain Management in Children Admitted to the Emergency Room: A Narrative Review.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging immersive technology with initial documentation of reduction in anxiety and pain when used by children in the hospital setting. The objective of this study was to compare VR to standard of care (SOC) in a pediatric Emergency Department (ED) for pain management and anxiety among children needing a laceration repair procedure. We conducted a prospective randomized controlled trial in a tertiary pediatric ED (NCT03681717) with children 6-16 years of age going through a laceration repair procedure. Intervention was low-cost VR goggles with a free roller coaster application during the procedure or SOC in the ED during the same time (1:1). The primary outcome was post-procedure pain (Faces Pain Scale - Revised (FPS-R)), and secondary outcome was the Venham Situational Anxiety (VSA) score. A total of 32 subjects were in the VR group and 30 in the SOC group. Age, gender, location and length of the laceration, number of sutures needed, use of oral, topical or local anesthetics, time to complete the procedure and time to discharge, were similar between groups. Pain and anxiety as measured after the procedure were very low, and similar between groups. Children rated the VR experience more positively than the SOC (
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