ReviewChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2020
Immersive Virtual Reality as Analgesia during Dressing Changes of Hospitalized Children and Adolescents with Burns: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.
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- Effects of Health Education Using Virtual Reality for Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing · 2023Pooled it
- Acceptability and Usability of Smileyscope Virtual Reality for Paediatric Pain Management During Burn Procedures: Perspectives of Patients, Carers and Clinicians.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
- Infectious Diseases-Approved Virtual Reality Goggles for Common Procedures in Pediatric Surgical Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Use of virtual reality in children in a broad range of medical settings: a systematic narrative review of recent meta-analyses.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2024Article
- Virtual Reality in Clinical Nursing Practice Over the Past 10 Years: Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses.JMIR serious games · 2023Review
- The Emerging Role of Virtual Reality as an Adjunct to Procedural Sedation and Anesthesia: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Experiences of children with central venous access devices: a mixed-methods study.Pediatric research · 2023Article
- State-of-the-Art Review on Immersive Virtual Reality Interventions for Colonoscopy-Induced Anxiety and Pain.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Effect of Virtual Reality-Based Interventions on Pain During Wound Care in Burn Patients; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2022Review
- Efficacy of opioids and non-opioid analgesics in the treatment of post procedure pain of burned patients: a narrative review.Brazilian journal of anesthesiology (Elsevier)Review
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Children and adolescents with severe burns require medical and nursing interventions, associated with pain. As immersive virtual reality (VR) gained prominence as non-pharmacological adjuvant analgesia, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis on the efficacy of full immersive VR on pain experienced during dressing changes in hospitalized children and adolescents with severe burns. This exercise included quality and risk of bias assessment. The systematic review resulted in eight studies and 142 patients. Due to missing data, four studies were excluded from the meta-analysis. Fixed effects meta-analysis of the four included studies (n = 104) revealed a large effect size (ES) (Standardized Mean Difference = 0.94; 95% Confidence Interval = 0.62, 1.27; Z = 5.70;
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