Multicenter Trial Assessing an Innovative VAS of Pain Among Deaf People

Assessment of an Innovative Visual Analogue Scale of Pain (Pictorial VAS) Versus the Usual VAS (VAS) Among Deaf People

Status

Completed

Phases

Phase 2Phase 3

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01423409

Acronym

EVA_SOURD

Enrollment

289

Registered

2011-08-25

Start date

2011-06-30

Completion date

2013-06-30

Last updated

2013-07-23

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Conditions

Deafness, Visual Analog Pain Scale

Keywords

visual analog pain scale, Deaf persons, clinical trial, multicentric

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to assess an innovative Visual Analogue Scale of pain (pictorial VAS) versus the usual VAS (VAS) among Deaf People. The assumption of this study is that pictorial VAS is more suited to Deaf people than usual VAS.

Detailed description

Indeed French literature showed that 80% of Deaf people are illiterate. Moreover, lip-reading only allows to recognize one third of words. Pictorial VAS includes elements which promote understanding of Deaf people: colours and 6 detailed expressive faces.

Interventions

DEVICEpictorial VAS

Pictorial VAS includes elements which promote understanding of Deaf people: colours and 6 detailed expressive faces.

DEVICEusual VAS

usual visual analog scale (VAS) of pain (line from 0: no pain to 10:worst pain)

Study design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

DIAGNOSTIC

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* people aged over 18 years old * Deaf people * affiliation to the french social security system or equivalent * people who signed the consent form

Exclusion criteria

* hearing people * people who became deaf * pregnant or breastfeeding women * people deprived of freedom * people hospitalized without consent

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Innovative Visual Analogue Scale of Pain (Pictorial VAS) Versus the Usual VAS (VAS) Among Deaf People	one hour	an innovative visual analogue scale of pain (pictorial vas) versus the usual vas (vas) among deaf people, at hospital, in terms of good understanding of pain

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Average scores of pain between the both groups: pictorial VAS versus usual VAS	one hour	pain score
Analgesic treatment between the both groups : pictorial VAS versus usual VAS	one hour	analgesic treatment
Pain score and analgesic treatment before and after French Sign Language (FSL) explanations	one hour	pain score and analgesic treatment

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026