Effect of Virtual Reality and Music Therapy on Pain Relief in Outpatient Hysteroscopic Operations: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Procedure, Device
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

Outpatient hysteroscopy can serve as a diagnostic procedure to evaluate for abnormal uterine bleeding, such as menorrhagia or postmenopausal bleeding. This study focuses on the therapeutic aspect of outpatient hysteroscopy, such as myomectomy, polypectomy, intrauterine adhesiolysis and removal of lost intrauterine devices, etc. Apart from the conventional polyp scissors and biopsy forceps, there are also emerging hysterscopic tissue removal systems, such as Truclear®, that can decrease the operation time and increase success of outpatient hysteroscopic operations. On such occasions, the outpatient hysteroscopic operation needs to be re-arranged in an inpatient setting in the operation theatre under regional or general anesthesia. Therefore, improvement in pain management can reduce participants' health care experience, participants' anaesthetic and procedural risks, decrease healthcare costs, and reduce inconvenience to participants. This randomized controlled trial aims at evaluating the effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions (virtual reality and music therapy) in pain management during hysteroscopic operations. It can hopefully provide more local clinical data to explore the role of nonpharmacological techniques in pain control, hence improve our participants' experience in hysteroscopic operations and the potential of providing more hysteroscopic operations as an outpatient setting.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: Female
Minimum Age: 18
Maximum Age: 80
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• Participants scheduled for outpatient hysteroscopy in Prince of Wales Hospital.

• Participants who are willing to give written consent to participate in the study.

Locations
Other Locations
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
RECRUITING
Hong Kong
Contact Information
Primary
Tze Yan Wong
yannytywong@cuhk.edu.hk
3505 2806
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-07-13
Estimated Completion Date: 2025-12-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 210
Treatments
Experimental: Virtual reality group
Participants under Virtual reality group will wear a virtual reality headset with immersive video content during the whole hysteroscopy.
Experimental: Music therapy group
Participants under Music therapy group will wear a headphone playing music during the whole hysteroscopy.
No_intervention: Control group
Participants under Control group will proceed with hysteroscopy as usual practise.
Sponsors
Leads: Chinese University of Hong Kong

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