The children in the experimental group will receive the standard of care (access to in room activity including television (TV) distraction if desired, parent support and distraction at bedside, and quiet time) in addition to our intervention, an interactive virtual reality game, played for a minimum of 5 minutes prior to procedural sedation.

The children in the control group receiving standard of care will have access to in room activity including TV distraction if desired, parent support and distraction at bedside, and quiet time.

The virtual reality headset, device, and software, created by Stanford's Childhood Anxiety Reduction through Innovation and Technology (CHARIOT)program/Weightless Studio, LLC will be utilized in this study. Children in the VR intervention group will be allowed to select a distraction-based game to play with active VR content featuring interactive avatars and interactive experiences tailored to the pediatric population that allow players to do things such as control penguins sliding down a mountain while collecting pebbles for points, control puppies running in space to collect treats to the rhythm of music, and control an asteroid miner exploring an asteroid belt and collecting points based on color of asteroids collected. The game will last a minimum of 5 minutes in duration, provided participant tolerance. The participant may play longer if desired prior to receiving procedural sedation and the total length of activity played will be documented.

Post-Hospitalization Behavior Questionnaire, a parent-report tool, with 27 items in six categories, comprising general, separation, and sleep anxieties, eating disturbance, aggression towards authority, apathy/withdrawal accesses negative behavioral changes in children post-surgery, hospitalization (Kain et al., 1996, Kain et al., 1999) or after minor ED procedures (Brodzinski et al., 2013). It takes 10 minutes and is given prior to the sedation and at 1-week via text/email, phone, or mail follow up post-discharge.

Parents compare their child's behavior pre-hospitalization to post using the following: much less than before (1), less than before (2), same as before (3), more than before (4), and much more than before (5). Scores above 3 indicate greater maladaptive behavioral changes, below 3 indicate improvements and 3 indicates no change in behavior.

The m-YPAS assesses study participant's anxiety at the time of induction of anesthesia. It is completed in <1 minute, reliable, and its validity compares favorably to the State Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (Kain, Z. 1997). The Emergency Department provider completes the m-YPAS twice during the study: on patient arrival/enrollment and immediately preceding sedation after VR intervention or standard of care.

m-YPAS categories are activity, vocalizations, emotional expressivity, state of apparent arousal, and use of parent). Each item has Likert-type responses reflecting children behaviors and is rated from 1 to 4 or 1 to 6 (depending on the item), and higher numbers indicate the highest severity within that item.

Scores range from 23-100 and a score >30 is defined as anxious.