The Potential of Personalized Virtual Reality in Palliative Care: A Feasibility Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Virtual Reality can help alleviate symptoms in a non-palliative care population. Personalized therapy can further alleviate these symptoms. There is little evidence in a palliative care population.

Aim

To understand the feasibility of repeated personalized virtual reality sessions in a palliative care population.

Design

A feasibility randomized control trial. Intervention: personalized virtual reality, Control: non-personalized virtual reality. All participants completed a 4-minute virtual reality session for 4 weeks. At each point, the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System-Revised (scored 0 = none up to 100 = worst) was completed pre- and post- each session. A time-series regression analysis was completed for the overall effect.

Setting/participants

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SUBMITTER: Perna MSc Msw L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8641032 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature