Impact of Virtual Reality in Healthcare

Pillai, Anitha S.; Mathew, Prabha Susy

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-7168-1.ch002

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“…Prior to COVID-19, healthcare services were already being digitalised. 1 The public were becoming more familiar with using different technology as part of their routine healthcare – be that the management of an illness (e.g. diabetes) or by video calling a primary care provider.…”

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How effective is virtual reality technology in palliative care? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Mo¹,

Vickerstaff

Minton

et al. 2022

Palliat Med

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Background: The efficacy of virtual reality for people living with a terminal illness is unclear. Aim: To determine the feasibility and effectiveness of virtual reality use within a palliative care setting. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. PROSPERO (CRD42021240395). Data sources: Medline, Embase, AMED, PsycINFO, CINAHL, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and Web of Science were searched from inception to March 2021. Search terms included ‘virtual reality’ and ‘palliative care’. Eligibility: (1) adult (>18 years old) with a terminal illness (2) at least one virtual reality session and (3) feasibility data and/or at least one patient outcome reported. The ROB-2 and ROBINS tools assessed risk of bias. The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE) tool assessed the quality of the evidence. Standardised mean differences (Hedges’s g) were calculated from the pre- and post-data. A DerSimonian-Laird random effects model meta-analysis was conducted. Results: Eight studies were included, of which five were in the meta-analysis. All studies had at least some concern for risk of bias. Virtual reality statistically significantly improved pain ( p = 0.0363), tiredness ( p = 0.0030), drowsiness ( p = 0.0051), shortness of breath ( p = 0.0284), depression ( p = 0.0091) and psychological well-being ( p = 0.0201). The quality of the evidence was graded as very low due to small sample sizes, non-randomisation methods and a lack of a comparator arm. Conclusions: Virtual reality in palliative care is feasible and acceptable. However, limited sample sizes and very low-quality studies mean that the efficacy of virtual reality needs further research.

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How effective is virtual reality technology in palliative care? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Mo¹,

Vickerstaff

Minton

et al. 2022

Palliat Med

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“…Therefore, VR allows participants to experience simulated digital realities similar to those of physical reality, thus creating scenarios that are impossible to experience in the real world [4]. This newly created technology is increasingly applied in various areas of life, such as industry [5], medicine, rehabilitation and healthcare [6][7][8][9][10][11] or education [12,13]. The potential of this technology has also recently been noticed in the context of health-promoting physical activity [14][15][16][17][18], its application for physical education [19], cognitive functions training [20,21], as well as various applications in sport, among which virtual training and performance analysis are the most frequently quoted [22,23].…”

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Assessment of the Relevance and Reliability of Reaction Time Tests Performed in Immersive Virtual Reality by Mixed Martial Arts Fighters

Polechoński

Langer

2022

Sensors

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Immersive virtual reality (VR) is increasingly applied in various areas of life. The potential of this technology has also been noticed in recreational physical activity and sports. It appears that a virtual environment can also be used in diagnosing certain psychomotor abilities. The main aim of this study consisted of assessing the relevance and reliability of VR-implemented tests of simple and complex reaction time (RT) performed by mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters. Thirty-two professional MMA fighters were tested. The original test developed in the virtual environment was applied for RT assessment. The fighters’ task consisted of reacting to the lighting up of a virtual disc situated in front of them by pushing a controller button. The relevance of the test task was estimated by juxtaposing the obtained results with the classic computer test used for measuring simple and complex reactions, while its reliability was assessed with the intraclass correlation procedure. Significant relationships found between the results of VR-implemented tests and computer-based tests confirmed the relevance of the new tool for the assessment of simple and complex RT. In the context of their reliability, RT tests in VR do not differ from tests conducted with the use of standard computer-based tools. VR technology enables the creation of tools that are useful in diagnosing psychomotor abilities. Reaction time tests performed by MMA fighters with the use of VR can be considered relevant, and their reliability is similar to the reliability obtained in computer-based tests.

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“…The creation of various medical environments with healthcare impacts and personalized experiences can be aided by emergent immersive technologies such as VR, augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), or cross reality (XR), which have become popular as the basis of recreational games [40][41][42][43][44][45][46]. While AR, MR, and XR, in general, can provide training, education, relaxation, or entertainment, VR is the medium that presents the opportunity to most efficiently recreate events that are part of personal narratives, to deeply engage the immersed person with the highest sense of presence [47][48][49][50][51], and most efficiently simulate the personal narrative of the self [52].…”

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Reconstructing Personal Stories in Virtual Reality as a Mechanism to Recover the Self

Georgieva

Georgiev

2019

IJERPH

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Advances in virtual reality present opportunities to relive experiences in an immersive medium that can change the way we perceive our life stories, potentially shaping our realities for the better. This paper studies the role of virtual reality as a tool for the creation of stories with the concept of the self as a narrator and the life of the self as a storyline. The basis of the study is the philosophical notion of the self-narrative as an explanatory story of the events in one’s life that constitutes the notion of one’s self. This application is suitable for cases when individuals need to recreate their self, such as during recovery after traumatic events. The analysis of the effects of virtual reality shows that it enables a person to engage in a process of deeper self-observation to understand and explain adverse events and to give meaning to these events to form a new story, which can complement the therapeutic outcomes of exposure treatments. This study proposes concrete examples of immersive scenarios used to reconstruct personal stories. Several possible levels of experience are proposed to suggest that recovery can be achieved through the gradual retelling of the self-narrative, addressing all of the underlying narratives. Considering the ethical challenges that might arise, this paper explores the ways in which immersion in virtual reality can benefit a person’s view toward life as a story and his or her self as its author, comparing this idea with previous research on the application of virtual reality for trauma treatment. The analysis also emphasizes the perception of narrative authorship in virtual reality as an essential method for recovering the self-narrative and improving a patient’s mental health during self-actualization.

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Impact of Virtual Reality in Healthcare

Cited by 51 publications

References 24 publications

How effective is virtual reality technology in palliative care? A systematic review and meta-analysis

How effective is virtual reality technology in palliative care? A systematic review and meta-analysis

Assessment of the Relevance and Reliability of Reaction Time Tests Performed in Immersive Virtual Reality by Mixed Martial Arts Fighters

Reconstructing Personal Stories in Virtual Reality as a Mechanism to Recover the Self

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