Impact of Kinect-based virtual reality training on physical fitness and quality of life in severely burned children: A monocentric randomized controlled trial

The Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Interventions on Smoking, Nutrition, Alcohol, Physical Activity and/or Obesity Risk Factors: A Systematic Review

“…Of the 26 studies included, 5 assessed smoking cessation or reduction in smoking cigarettes [ 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 ], 12 solely focused on physical activity [ 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 ], 6 examined obesity and weight [ 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 ], 1 study examined both physical activity and obesity/weight-based outcomes [ 49 ], 1 study looked at nutrition in conjunction with obesity/weight outcomes [ 50 ], and 1 study focussed on obesity/weight, nutrition, and physical activity outcomes [ 51 ]. No studies studied the effectiveness of VR on alcohol consumption.…”

“…Twelve studies analysed the effectiveness of VR on increasing levels of PA [ 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 ]. These studies were conducted in the Netherlands [ 34 , 36 ], Taiwan [ 32 , 33 ], Turkey [ 35 , 40 ], Spain [ 37 , 41 ], USA [ 38 ], Egypt [ 31 ], Switzerland [ 42 ] and the UK [ 39 ] ( Supplementary Table S2 ).…”

“…Eight studies were conducted with clinical populations [ 31 , 32 , 33 , 35 , 36 , 39 , 41 , 42 ] from general inpatient or outpatients [ 42 ], to dementia or Alzheimer’s patients [ 36 ], children from a burn unit requiring physical rehabilitation [ 31 ], patients with Fibromyalgia (FM) [ 35 , 41 ], patients with multiple sclerosis [ 39 ], people who recently underwent cardiovascular (CV) surgery [ 32 ], or coronary artery bypass surgery [ 33 ]. In these studies with clinical populations, participants were recruited via the clinic or hospital they were attending [ 32 , 35 , 36 , 42 ], referred by physicians [ 33 ], mailed or handed an invitation letter [ 39 ], and using newspaper advertisements and word of mouth [ 36 ] and three studies did not report recruitment methods [ 31 , 35 , 41 ]. There were four studies conducted with non-clinical populations [ 34 , 37 , 38 , 40 ].…”

“…Across all the PA studies, sample sizes ranged from 20 [ 35 ] to 958 [ 34 ]. Seven studies had a majority of females [ 31 , 34 , 35 , 37 , 39 , 40 , 41 ], three of which included only females [ 35 , 37 , 41 ]. One study included men only [ 32 ].…”

“…One study included men only [ 32 ]. Across the studies mean age ranged from 13 [ 31 ] to 80 years old [ 36 ]. Studies ran for as short as a single session [ 42 ] to 3 weeks [ 37 ], 4 weeks with follow-up at week 8 [ 34 , 38 ], 8 weeks [ 35 , 40 ], 12 weeks [ 31 , 32 , 33 ], 12 weeks with follow-up at 24-weeks [ 36 ], 24 weeks with follow-up at week 48 [ 41 ], and 12 months [ 39 ].…”