Julian Corvin, Zara Hoskinson, Beth Mozolic-Staunton
Virtual reality (VR) interventions, such as meditation, can reduce psychological distress and physical pain in palliative care patients while helping them achieve personal goals like coping with pain or relaxation. Low-immersion VR experiences are effective and well-accepted, with minimal participant burden and reported benefits outweighing any sadness from reminiscence. VR presents a valuable tool for occupational therapists in palliative care settings.
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Summary
Virtual reality (VR) therapeutic modalities, such as meditation, may alleviate psychological distress and physical pain of palliative care patients while exploring client-specified goals: coping with pain, reminiscence, or relaxation.
Suitable VR experience content has been described as low-immersion, effective and accepted by palliative care participants in previous studies. Researchers have noted that VR interventions’ participant burden was minimal, with participants reporting sadness due to reminiscences stating that the benefits outweighed the harm (Brungardt et al. Reference Brungardt, Wibben and Tompkins2021; Kabir et al. Reference Kabir, Rice and Bush2020; Perna et al. Reference Perna, White and Minton2021). VR, therefore, offers an option to occupational therapists for use in palliative care settings.
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