Perioperative medicine (London, England)
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Perioper Med (Lond) · Jan 2019
The effect of virtual reality technology on preoperative anxiety in children: a Solomon four-group randomized clinical trial.
Preoperative anxiety correlates positively with the amount of postoperative pain, analgesic use, and length of hospital stay. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of virtual reality technology on pre-operative anxiety in children. ⋯ The medical treatment using virtual reality technology, as well as distraction and drowning in the virtual reality, reduced pre-operative anxiety in children.