Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Interventions for Adolescent Patients in Hospital Settings: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Given the high level of interest and increasing familiarity with virtual reality among adolescents, there is great potential to use virtual reality to address adolescents' unique health care delivery needs while in hospital. While there have been reviews on the use of virtual reality for specific health conditions and procedures, none to date have reviewed the full scope of virtual reality hospital interventions for adolescents who are often combined with children as a homogenous group, despite the fact that adolescents experience virtual environments different from children.

Objective

The aim of this review was to systematically identify available evidence regarding the use of virtual reality interventions for adolescent patients in hospital settings to evaluate

SUBMITTER: Ridout B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8277306 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature