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Virtual Reality for Distraction and Relaxation in a Pediatric Hospital Setting: An Interventional Study With a Mixed-Methods Design
Accumulating evidence supports the use of virtual reality (VR) as an effective pain and anxiety management tool for pediatric patients during specific medical procedures in dedicated patient groups. However, VR is still not widely adopted in everyday clinical practice. Feasibility and acceptability...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9192964/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35712230 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2022.866119 |
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author | Bernaerts, Sylvie Bonroy, Bert Daems, Jo Sels, Romy Struyf, Dieter Gies, Inge van de Veerdonk, Wessel |
author_facet | Bernaerts, Sylvie Bonroy, Bert Daems, Jo Sels, Romy Struyf, Dieter Gies, Inge van de Veerdonk, Wessel |
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description | Accumulating evidence supports the use of virtual reality (VR) as an effective pain and anxiety management tool for pediatric patients during specific medical procedures in dedicated patient groups. However, VR is still not widely adopted in everyday clinical practice. Feasibility and acceptability measures of clinicians' experiences are often missing in studies, thereby omitting an important stakeholder in VR use in a clinical setting. Therefore, the aim of this mixed-methods study was to investigate the feasibility, acceptability, tolerability (primary outcomes), and preliminary effectiveness (secondary outcome) of Relaxation-VR in both pediatric patients aged 4–16 years and clinicians. Relaxation-VR is a VR application prototype aimed to provide distraction and relaxation for a variety of patient populations and procedures and is used to reduce anxiety, stress (tension) and pain for children in hospital. Multiple measures of acceptability, feasibility and tolerability, and pre-to-post changes in measures of pain, anxiety, stress and happiness were assessed in pediatric patients. At the end of the study, acceptability and feasibility of VR use was assessed in clinicians. Results indicate that VR use (in particular, the Relaxation-VR prototype) for both distraction and relaxation is acceptable, feasible and tolerable for a variety of pediatric patients aged 4–16 years, as assessed in both patients and clinicians, and can reduce anxiety, pain and tension (stress), and increase happiness in a hospital setting. |
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spelling | pubmed-91929642022-06-15 Virtual Reality for Distraction and Relaxation in a Pediatric Hospital Setting: An Interventional Study With a Mixed-Methods Design Bernaerts, Sylvie Bonroy, Bert Daems, Jo Sels, Romy Struyf, Dieter Gies, Inge van de Veerdonk, Wessel Front Digit Health Digital Health Accumulating evidence supports the use of virtual reality (VR) as an effective pain and anxiety management tool for pediatric patients during specific medical procedures in dedicated patient groups. However, VR is still not widely adopted in everyday clinical practice. Feasibility and acceptability measures of clinicians' experiences are often missing in studies, thereby omitting an important stakeholder in VR use in a clinical setting. Therefore, the aim of this mixed-methods study was to investigate the feasibility, acceptability, tolerability (primary outcomes), and preliminary effectiveness (secondary outcome) of Relaxation-VR in both pediatric patients aged 4–16 years and clinicians. Relaxation-VR is a VR application prototype aimed to provide distraction and relaxation for a variety of patient populations and procedures and is used to reduce anxiety, stress (tension) and pain for children in hospital. Multiple measures of acceptability, feasibility and tolerability, and pre-to-post changes in measures of pain, anxiety, stress and happiness were assessed in pediatric patients. At the end of the study, acceptability and feasibility of VR use was assessed in clinicians. Results indicate that VR use (in particular, the Relaxation-VR prototype) for both distraction and relaxation is acceptable, feasible and tolerable for a variety of pediatric patients aged 4–16 years, as assessed in both patients and clinicians, and can reduce anxiety, pain and tension (stress), and increase happiness in a hospital setting. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9192964/ /pubmed/35712230 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2022.866119 Text en Copyright © 2022 Bernaerts, Bonroy, Daems, Sels, Struyf, Gies and van de Veerdonk. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Digital Health Bernaerts, Sylvie Bonroy, Bert Daems, Jo Sels, Romy Struyf, Dieter Gies, Inge van de Veerdonk, Wessel Virtual Reality for Distraction and Relaxation in a Pediatric Hospital Setting: An Interventional Study With a Mixed-Methods Design |
title | Virtual Reality for Distraction and Relaxation in a Pediatric Hospital Setting: An Interventional Study With a Mixed-Methods Design |
title_full | Virtual Reality for Distraction and Relaxation in a Pediatric Hospital Setting: An Interventional Study With a Mixed-Methods Design |
title_fullStr | Virtual Reality for Distraction and Relaxation in a Pediatric Hospital Setting: An Interventional Study With a Mixed-Methods Design |
title_full_unstemmed | Virtual Reality for Distraction and Relaxation in a Pediatric Hospital Setting: An Interventional Study With a Mixed-Methods Design |
title_short | Virtual Reality for Distraction and Relaxation in a Pediatric Hospital Setting: An Interventional Study With a Mixed-Methods Design |
title_sort | virtual reality for distraction and relaxation in a pediatric hospital setting: an interventional study with a mixed-methods design |
topic | Digital Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9192964/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35712230 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2022.866119 |
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