Virtual Reality and Coping with Procedural Pain in Burn Patients

"The investigators manipulated the following two variables within the experimental design:~Immersion in the virtual environment. This was a nominal variable with two levels: a low-immersive environment (Other group) and a highly immersive environment (Experimental group) using the Cold River application.~Order of virtual reality (VR) deployment during the first session. This was also a nominal variable with two levels: VR during the first part of the dressing change (removing the dressing) and VR during the second part of the dressing change (cleaning the wound and applying a new dressing). In each subsequent session, the order of VR deployment was swapped for each participant.~The values of both variables were assigned to participants according to their numbers (e.g., 1. highly immersive, VR first; 2. low immersive, VR first; 3. highly immersive, VR last; 4. low immersive, VR last, etc.)."