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(HealthDay News) — For hospitalized patients with cancer, immersive virtual reality (VR) distraction therapy is associated with a greater reduction in pain compared with an active control, according to a study published online April 8 in Cancer.
Hunter Groninger, MD, from MedStar Health Research Institute in Hyattsville, MD, and colleagues conducted a prospective randomized controlled trial comparing VR to an active control to mitigate moderate-to-severe cancer disease and treatment-related pain among 128 adult hospitalized patients with cancer. Participants were randomly assigned to 10 minutes of immersive VR distraction therapy or 10 minutes of two-dimensional guided imagery distraction therapy. In terms of age, sex, race, presence of metastatic disease, concurrent pain specialist consultation, and baseline opioid use, participants in the two...
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