Hospice News February 13, 2024
Researchers in China have found that virtual reality palliative therapy can help improve the physical and emotional state of terminally ill cancer patients.
About 128 cancer patients volunteered to participate in a clinical trial study between November 2022 and September 2023 that examined the impacts of virtual reality therapy. Patients that participated were individuals receiving palliative care at the Shatin Hospital in Hong Kong with different types of lung, breast, rectum and prostate cancers.
The clinical trial studied the impacts of a program developed by a team of researchers in 2020 dubbed the Flourishing-Life-of-Wish Virtual Reality Relaxation Therapy (FLOW-VRT-Relaxation). The VR study’s results were recently unveiled in the Frontiers Medical Technology journal.
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