Reduction of Children’s Fears with VR
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): TrendBT
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/06/16
Pediatrician, or those doctors who work with children, have been looking for ways in which to have children get immunizations. Outside of the concerns of people against vaccinations, the children can cry and scream to not have them.
It makes immunizations and other things difficult for the doctors having to work with the parents and the children when the child is having a tantrum. The fear of needles and so immunizations and vaccinations via needles are a common thing for kids.
Eureka Alert reported, “A pediatrician has come up with an innovative solution to distract children from their fear, anxiety and pain using a virtual reality headset. He is the first to conduct a pilot study, published in the journal Pain Management, using this technique in a pediatric setting.”
There was research into humans having the capacity for limited attention and if distracted then pain will not register as much pain in them. They will feel less pain because of the distraction.
“To date, no studies have looked at virtual reality distraction during pediatric immunizations, so Rudnick decided to put his theory to the test working with two pre med students and co-authors of the study, Emaan Sulaiman and Jillian Orden, in FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science,” the article stated.
The study looked at the efficiency, feasibility, and usefulness. As it turns out, the VR headsets helped with the reduction of fear and pain for the pediatric patients getting the regular immunization shots. The participants in the research ranged in age from 6 to 17.
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