An interventional study of VR-PAT in Acute Pain, Procedural Anxiety and Juvenile Idiopahtic Arthritis, sponsored by Nationwide Children's Hospital. Enrolling by invitation at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 5 Years to 17 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-20.
Sponsored by Nationwide Children's Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The goal of the project is to implement virtual reality for pain and anxiety management for patients undergoing intra-articular glucocorticoid injections in the outpatient pediatric rheumatology clinic.
To assess feasibility of VR use in the clinic, 10 patients will be recruited to use VR during non-sedated intra-articular (IA) glucocorticoid injections. All patients will be offered our typical analgesia (LMX topical cream, freeze spray, lidocaine injection). Patients and caregivers will be asked to fill out pre-injection and post-injection surveys, and staff (rheumatology clinic nurses) will be asked for feedback regarding feasibility of VR in clinical workflows.
The specific aims of the study are to:
Aim 1: Assess the feasibility and efficacy of VR use to reduce pain in patients undergoing non-sedated IA glucocorticoid injections at Nationwide Children's Hospital
1,073 studies on the registry are indexed under Acute Pain; 166 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 10 is below the median of 86 across 902 interventional studies indexed under Acute Pain.
Browse Acute Pain studies →Nationwide Children's Hospital is the lead sponsor of 233 studies on the registry; 43 are open to participants now.
Of its 17 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 9 (53%) have results posted.
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Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
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Corticosteroids (steroids)
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.
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Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
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Participants will be using the VR-PAT during IA glucocorticoid injections
Other: VR-PAT
Virtual Reality Pain Alleviation Therapeutic (VR-PAT) via a Pico Neo3 Pro Eye
Practicality/utility of the VR experience as a pain and anxiety management tool for IA joint injection procedures
Assessed by the nurse answering the following questions: "Is this distraction tool helpful during joint injection procedures (Yes/No)?" and "Is this distraction tool easy to use during joint injections (Yes/No)?"
Time frame: Immediately following the IA joint injection procedure
Self-reported change procedural anxiety
0-10 Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) (self-reported), 0(min)-10(max), with higher score indicating worse anxiety.
Time frame: Immediately before the IA joint injection procedure and immediately after
Self-reported pain
0-10 Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) (self-reported), 0(min)-10(max), with higher score indicating worse pain. Asked for worst pain, average pain, and time spent thinking about pain.
Time frame: Immediately following the IA joint injection procedure
Plan to share: No
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Started Oct 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jul 2029, 33 months after the start.
Of 424 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Acute Pain, half reached primary completion within 12 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 5 and three quarters within 23. This study's planned 33 months is above that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 430 studies reached it within 11 months; a quarter within 5 and three quarters within 23.
Start moved once since we started tracking on Sep 25, 2026: Aug 2026 → Oct 2026, on Oct 20, 2026.
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