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Papers: 10 Aug 2019 - 16 Aug 2019

RESEARCH TYPE:
Psychology


Human Studies


2019


PLoS One


14


8

Virtual reality for management of pain in hospitalized patients: A randomized comparative effectiveness trial.

Authors

Spiegel B, Fuller G, Lopez M, Dupuy T, Noah B, Howard A, Albert M, Tashjian V, Lam R, Ahn J, Dailey F, Rosen BT, Vrahas M, Little M, Garlich J, Dzubur E, IsHak W, Danovitch I
PLoS One. 2019; 14(8):e0219115.
PMID: 31412029.

Abstract

Therapeutic virtual reality (VR) has emerged as an effective, drug-free tool for pain management, but there is a lack of randomized, controlled data evaluating its effectiveness in hospitalized patients. We sought to measure the impact of on-demand VR versus "health and wellness" television programming for pain in hospitalized patients.