Virtual reality (VR) may be an effective and reliable tool to alleviate the anxiety experienced by most parents or caregivers when their child undergoes surgery, according to research presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2023 annual meeting.
When a child has a medical procedure, it is often emotionally unsettling for not just the patient, but the entire family. By providing family-centered care, we aim to treat not just the patient, but also caregivers, who experience quite a bit of anxiety before, during and after surgery when a loved one is undergoing a procedure. Our findings demonstrated a significant reduction in anxiety when using VR, compared to our standard of care.
Approximately 74% of caregivers experience anxiety prior to their child's surgical procedure. Despite this, interventions to treat caregiver anxiety have only been implemented in a few hospitals, the authors note. The study included 26 caregivers of children undergoing noninvasive or surgical procedures. The VR intervention involved guided, mindfulness meditation using a commercially available VR headset. The mindfulness application that caregivers experienced was developed by the Stanford Chariot Program, a clinical and translational research program that develops novel uses for immersive technologies in pediatric health care.
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