ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Effects of Using Guided Deep Breathing Exercises in a Virtual Natural Environment to Reduce Stress during Pediatric Treatment.
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- Immersive Virtual Reality for Pediatric Procedural Pain and Anxiety: A Structured Narrative Review and Developmentally Informed Framework for Clinical Matching and AI-Supported Personalization.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Review
- Linking Brain, Heart, and Behavior in Children: Frontal Electroencephalogram Activity, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, and Internalizing Behaviors.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- The Effect of Diaphragmatic Breathing as a Complementary Therapeutic Strategy in Stress of Children and Teenagers 6-18 Years Old.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Exploring the effect of different typical plant community on human stress reduction: a field experiment.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Case Report: Virtual natural environment solution helped a child cope with a painful procedure.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Design and User Experience of VirNE Application: Deep Breathing Exercise in a Virtual Natural Environment to Reduce Treatment Anxiety in Pediatrics.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
There exists a need for new methods to address treatment anxiety in pediatrics-at the same time, deep breathing exercises and virtual natural environments have both been known to have stress-reducing qualities. This article reports the combined effect of these two methods in a pediatric setting. A feasibility study was conducted in a local hospital. The study had a within-subjects design, and it included 21 child patients aged 8 to 12 years old, who used a virtual reality (VR) relaxation application developed for this purpose during an intravenous cannulation procedure related to their treatment. The key findings highlight a statistically very significant stress reduction associated with the utilized VR intervention, demonstrated by heart rate variability measurements (SDNN,
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