BACKGROUND: Medical procedures often evoke pain and anxiety in pediatric patients.
Virtual reality (VR) is a relatively new intervention that can be used to provide distraction …

Virtual Reality (VR) is now consumer ready and nearing ubiquity. In terms of clinical
applications, several studies suggest that VR can be effective as a complementary adjunct …

Background: Virtual reality is increasingly being utilized by clinicians to facilitate analgesia
and anxiolysis within an inpatient setting. There is however, a lack of a clinically relevant …

Background High quality head-mounted display based virtual reality (HMD-VR) has become
widely available, spurring greater development of HMD-VR health games. As a behavior …

Objectives: This review aims to provide a framework for evaluating the utility of virtual reality
(VR) as a distraction intervention to alleviate pain and distress during medical procedures …

Importance The inclusion of digital therapeutics (eg, virtual reality [VR] systems) for the
management of pain and anxiety associated with routine acutely painful medical procedures …

Objectives This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) in managing
different types of pain in different age groups and to provide evidence for the clinical …

Purpose: Needle procedures are one of the most distressing practices for pediatric oncology
patients. Virtual reality (VR) is a distraction method which offers an extremely realistic and …

Background: Given the high level of interest and increasing familiarity with virtual reality
among adolescents, there is great potential to use virtual reality to address adolescents' …

Aim and objectives To determine whether the virtual reality as a distracting intervention
could reduce pain and fear in school‐age children receiving intravenous injections at an …