Clinical Trial

The Effect of Virtual Reality and Buzzy Application on Pain, Fear and Anxiety During Prick Test in Children

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This record was last updated September 17, 2025 (before its estimated December 15, 2025 completion). Its status may not reflect the trial's current state.
Summary
Allergy is a hypersensitivity reaction to a triggering agent. Tests used in allergy are divided into two: in vivo and in vitro. Among the in vivo tests routinely used, epidermal, intradermal and patch tests are used, and the most commonly used is the skin prick test. In order to prevent the negative effects of pain, it is important to be informed about the appropriate approach to children, newborns and babies, and effective pain management, according to their cognitive development levels. Pain management in children should be done appropriately with accurate assessment tools. This will increase the quality of life, reduce hospitalizations, shorten the length of hospital stay and reduce costs. Pain experiences experienced during childhood will cause later pain experiences to be perceived as more severe and cause anxiety and fear. Anxiety is a psychological, physiological and behavioral state that develops in response to a perceived or existing threat. Anxiety, which can also be expressed as worry or anxiety, is a emotional state that can occur in various ways, such as restlessness, tension, easy fatigue, lack of concentration, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance, in which autonomic and somatic symptoms occur in the body, without any reason. Virtual reality provides multi-sensory information as children focus on the simulated world. Virtual reality, one of the cognitive methods; It can create an environment where three-dimensional pictures or animations created on the computer can interact in people's minds. It is also defined as a distraction method created by software, which creates the feeling that users are in the environment even though they are not in the real environment, and can interact with people in the environment. When all these studies were examined, no three-group study was found comparing a distracting method with a physical method for the 7-10 age group. Additionally, there is a study that used virtual reality in the prick test, but there is no method that has been proven to be superior to virtual reality. In this study, it will be investigated whether virtual reality and buzzy applications have a reducing effect on pain, fear and anxiety compared to the control group. Virtual reality and buzzy techniques will also be compared with each other. Since no such study has been found in the literature, it is thought to contribute to the field.
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This ClinicalTrials.gov record has been amended 2 times since 2024-06-03; most recent amendment 2025-09-11.
Trial Details
NCT Number NCT06443060
Lead Sponsor KTO Karatay University
Conditions Pain, Fear, Anxiety, Children, Only, Virtual Reality
Enrollment 111 participants
Start Date 2025-10-15
Primary Completion 2025-12-15 (estimated)
Study Completion 2025-12-15 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov 2025-09-17