Relaxation-VR: Implementation of Virtual Reality for Children in Hospital

"The VR intervention, Relaxation-VR, is a VR application developed by Psylaris aiming to reduce anxiety/stress and pain by distracting the patient in a relaxing environment. Relaxation-VR will be administered via a commercially available VR headset (Oculus Go). The VR headset is a piece of equipment that a person wears over their eyes that allows them to experience images and sounds produced by a computer as if they were part of real life (Cambridge Dictionary, 2020). As such, the patient is immersed in a novel, calming and distracting environment where the he/she is asked to perform tasks that will help the patients to relax when distressed before and/or during a medical procedure or during their stay in hospital.~The Relaxation-VR application consists of three modules: two modules make use of relaxation principles (i.e. breathing exercises, meditation) and one module presents a scene with different interactive animations and objects (i.e. popping bubbles, playing fetch with a dog)."