Home to Hospital Live Streaming With Virtual Reality Goggles: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Experiences of Hospitalized Children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Being separated from home and relatives is a major stressor for children and adolescents when hospitalized. Children long for a manner to be distracted, pleasured, and socially connected during hospitalization. Different technological devices have been applied in health care to answer those needs. Both virtual reality (VR) and videoconferencing have proven their value in hospital wards and pediatrics. VisitU combines these 2 technologies innovatively. VisitU is a recently launched VR product enabling users to be virtually at home during hospitalization.

Objective

This study aims to explore the experiences of hospitalized patients with the VR intervention of VisitU in addition to standard care.

Methods

Over a 3-month period, a purposive sample of 10 patients

SUBMITTER: Bakker A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6716480 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature