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NCT06632691
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Virtual Reality Headset and Acceptability of Rectosigmoidoscopy in Ulcerative Colitis: a Randomised Controlled Trial

Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Departemental Vendee

View on ClinicalTrials.gov

Summary

Haemorrhagic rectocolitis is an inflammatory bowel disease that continuously affects the rectum and colon, with lesions that extend variably from the rectum into the upstream colon. This disease requires repeated assessment of both clinical activity (transcribed by the clinical Mayo score) and endoscopic activity. ACCEPT study showed that the acceptability of rectosigmoidoscopy is low, and the main determinants of this low acceptability were pain and bloating (51%) and embarrassment during the examination (30%). Virtual reality headsets has analgesic and anxiolytic properties, thanks to specially designed virtual environments that apply different principles such as medical hypnosis, music therapy and cardiac coherence to enhance therapeutic action. The aim of our project is to study the benefit of medical hypnosis provided by the use of a virtual reality headset in terms of tolerance of lower digestive endoscopy in patients with ulcerative colitis.

Key Details

Gender

All

Age Range

18 Years - Any

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

100

Start Date

2024-10-09

Completion Date

2027-04-09

Last Updated

2025-08-01

Healthy Volunteers

No

Interventions

DEVICE

Virtual reality headset

Use of a virtual reality headset during rectosigmoidoscopy

Locations (2)

Centre Hospitalier Departemental Vendee

La Roche-sur-Yon, France

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Nantes

Nantes, France