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NCT07274098: VR-RAP
To Test Effectiveness of Virtual Reality on Post Operative Patients 'VR-RAP@
NA trial testing Virtual reality in Colo-rectal Surgery in 10 participants. Completed in 8 August 2025.
9 June 2025
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | none |
| Primary purpose | other |
| Enrollment | 10 |
| Start date | 16 April 2025 |
| Primary completion | 9 June 2025 |
| Estimated completion | 8 August 2025 |
| Sites | 1 location across United Kingdom |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Virtual reality
Conditions studied
- Colo-rectal Surgery — all drugs for Colo-rectal Surgery →
Sponsor
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Who can join
18 and older, any sex, with Colo-rectal Surgery. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
Virtual reality (VR) headsets (like those used in gaming) allow users to feel immersed in an artificial 3 dimensional environment. The user is able to look around within the environment and interact with it. Virtual reality has been used extensively in video games and also in training eg in flight simulators used to train pilots. There is now a growing use of VR in a clinical setting as virtual reality environments have been designed to help users relax and reduce anxiety or distract and reduce pain. Trials have shown that these can work in many situations including helping relax staff who are working in highly stressful situations, or to distract and help reduce pain in patients following injuries or during minor operations. The relaxation environments use pictures and sounds to create calm environments and can guide users in breathing exercises which help calm and relax. This study is to investigate whether it will be possible to do a study using a VR headset with a relaxation experience, in the days following abdominal surgery that leads to a reduction in anxiety and pain. Two groups of patients will be studied, one group will use the head set twice a day for up to 5 days and the other will not. They will record their pain and anxiety on a scale of 1 to 10 every day. The amount of pain reducing medicines that they need will also be recorded. The patients will be randomly divided into the 2 groups, they will not get to choose. The researchers will see whether patients are happy to use the headsets following surgery and at the end of the study, the pain and anxiety scores for the group which used the VR headset will be compared with the scores for the group that didn't.
Publications & conference data
No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.
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Verify against primary sources
- ClinicalTrials.gov — authoritative US registry record
- WHO ICTRP — international registry index
- EU Clinical Trials Register
- Sponsor press releases (Google)
- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT07274098 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
- Last refreshed: 10 December 2025
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