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title: "Virtual Reality Colonoscopy : a Study From Nancy"
nct_id: NCT05203978
overall_status: UNKNOWN
sponsor: Central Hospital, Nancy, France
study_type: OBSERVATIONAL
primary_condition: Colorectal Neoplasms
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ct_last_update_post_date: 2022-03-08
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# Virtual Reality Colonoscopy : a Study From Nancy

**NCT ID:** [NCT05203978](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05203978)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** UNKNOWN
- **Study Type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Target Enrollment:** 120
- **Lead Sponsor:** Central Hospital, Nancy, France
- **Conditions:** Colorectal Neoplasms, Colorectal Polyp
- **Start Date:** 2022-03
- **Completion Date:** 2022-06
- **CT.gov Last Update:** 2022-03-08

## Brief Summary

Colonoscopy is an exam which can be responsible for pain and discomfort for the patient.

Therefore colonoscopy is performed most of the time under general anaesthesia. Moreover, drug-induced sedation comes with adverse effects especially among fragile patients.

Besides, monitoring patients during and after sedation is both logistically demanding and costly.

Virtual reality offers immersive and three dimensional experiences that distract the attention and might improve patients comfort.

The aim of the study is to investigate the use of virtual reality during colonoscopy versus general anaesthesia.

## Detailed Description

The study is based on a home made questionnaires completed by the operator and the patient before and after the colonoscopy.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 18 Years
- **Sex:** ALL
- **Healthy Volunteers:** No

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Inclusion Criteria:

* patient needed planned colonoscopy
* able to fill in questionnaires in French

Exclusion Criteria:

* visual or auditor impairments
* dementia patient
* limited French language skills
* diagnosis of balance disorders or epilepsy
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## Arms

- **Virtual reality colonoscopy** — using virtual reality with glasses and sound no anaesthesia
- **General anaesthesia colonoscopy** — gold standard

## Interventions

- **colonoscopy** (PROCEDURE) — Colonoscopy

## Primary Outcomes

- **Complete colonoscopy defined by caecum intubation (binary criterion : yes or no)** _(time frame: baseline)_ — found of the report

## Secondary Outcomes

- **Pain evaluated by Numeric Rating Scale during the procedure (0 no pain and 10 highest imaginable pain)** _(time frame: baseline)_
- **Anxiety evaluated by the validated score State Trait Anxiety Inventory ranging from 20 (absence of anxiety) to 80 (highest anxiety)** _(time frame: baseline)_
- **Comfort evaluated by Gloucester Comfort Scale between 1 comfortable and 5 severe discomfort** _(time frame: baseline)_
- **Satisfaction evaluated on scale of willingness to return (0 no willing at all to 10 definitively willing)** _(time frame: baseline)_
- **Polyp removal (binary criterion : yes or no)** _(time frame: baseline)_

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