{"title":"Perspectives on the use of Virtual Reality within a public hospital setting: surveying knowledge, attitudes, and perceived utility among health care professionals","authors":"C. Shiner, Gabrielle Croker, John McGhee, S. Faux","doi":"10.1186/s44247-024-00076-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-024-00076-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72426,"journal":{"name":"BMC digital health","volume":"65 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140655485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. L. van de Wouw, E. Bousché, M. M. J. van Schooneveld, J. M. P. Breur, H. P. Nijenhuis, H. Huygelier, T. C. W. Nijboer
{"title":"Playing for cognition: investigating the feasibility and user experience of a virtual reality serious game for cognitive assessment in children with congenital heart disease","authors":"C. L. van de Wouw, E. Bousché, M. M. J. van Schooneveld, J. M. P. Breur, H. P. Nijenhuis, H. Huygelier, T. C. W. Nijboer","doi":"10.1186/s44247-024-00075-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-024-00075-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72426,"journal":{"name":"BMC digital health","volume":" 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140690053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chronic pain healthcare workers’ challenges in pain management and receptiveness towards VR as an adjunct management tool: a qualitative study","authors":"Lydia Weiling Li, Tan Hui Yi, Nang Ei Ei Khaing","doi":"10.1186/s44247-024-00073-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-024-00073-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72426,"journal":{"name":"BMC digital health","volume":"285 S8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140703954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sumeyye Balci, Ann-Marie Küchler, D. Ebert, Harald Baumeister
{"title":"Culturally adapted Turkish version of an internet-based mindfulness intervention for university students: a randomized controlled feasibility trial","authors":"Sumeyye Balci, Ann-Marie Küchler, D. Ebert, Harald Baumeister","doi":"10.1186/s44247-024-00074-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-024-00074-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72426,"journal":{"name":"BMC digital health","volume":"22 S2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140714487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Home blood pressure telemonitoring in the Netherlands: a pilot study in GP practices","authors":"Job van Steenkiste, Iris Verberk, Jorie Versmissen, Daan Dohmen, Sjaam Jainandunsing","doi":"10.1186/s44247-024-00072-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-024-00072-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72426,"journal":{"name":"BMC digital health","volume":"19 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140743108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Deighan, Daniel Simpson, Amberly Brigden, Kirsten Cater
{"title":"Perspectives of healthcare professionals on the use of immersive virtual reality in teenage and young adult oncology: a qualitative interview study","authors":"M. Deighan, Daniel Simpson, Amberly Brigden, Kirsten Cater","doi":"10.1186/s44247-024-00071-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-024-00071-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72426,"journal":{"name":"BMC digital health","volume":"11 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140751816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mahima Venkateswaran, J. Pervin, Akuba Dolphyne, Ingrid K. Friberg, Ingvild Fjeldheim, J. Frøen, Fatema Khatun, Brian O'Donnell, Monjur Rahman, A. Rahman, U. Nu, Christopher James Rose, B. Sarker, A. Rahman
{"title":"eRegMat – a digital registry for improved quality of antenatal care: a cluster-randomized trial in a rural area in Bangladesh","authors":"Mahima Venkateswaran, J. Pervin, Akuba Dolphyne, Ingrid K. Friberg, Ingvild Fjeldheim, J. Frøen, Fatema Khatun, Brian O'Donnell, Monjur Rahman, A. Rahman, U. Nu, Christopher James Rose, B. Sarker, A. Rahman","doi":"10.1186/s44247-023-00059-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-023-00059-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72426,"journal":{"name":"BMC digital health","volume":" 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139618438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Srishti Dang, A. Looijmans, Nikita Sharma, Annemarie Braakman Jansen, M. Hagedoorn
{"title":"Exploring the support needs of young adult caregivers, their issues, and preferences towards a web-based tool: a mixed-method study","authors":"Srishti Dang, A. Looijmans, Nikita Sharma, Annemarie Braakman Jansen, M. Hagedoorn","doi":"10.1186/s44247-023-00057-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-023-00057-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72426,"journal":{"name":"BMC digital health","volume":"45 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139442334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC digital healthPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-09-16DOI: 10.1186/s44247-024-00117-5
David P Way, Ashish R Panchal, Alan Price, Vita Berezina-Blackburn, Jeremy Patterson, Jillian McGrath, Douglas Danforth, Nicholas E Kman
{"title":"Learner evaluation of an immersive virtual reality mass casualty incident simulator for triage training.","authors":"David P Way, Ashish R Panchal, Alan Price, Vita Berezina-Blackburn, Jeremy Patterson, Jillian McGrath, Douglas Danforth, Nicholas E Kman","doi":"10.1186/s44247-024-00117-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-024-00117-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>To minimize loss of life, modern mass casualty response requires swift identification, efficient triage categorization, and rapid hemorrhage control. Current training methods remain suboptimal. Our objective was to train first responders to triage a mass casualty incident using Virtual Reality (VR) simulation and obtain their impressions of the training's quality and effectiveness.We trained subjects in a triage protocol called Sort, Assess, Lifesaving interventions, and Treatment and/or Transport (SALT) Triage then had them respond to a terrorist bombing of a subway station using a fully immersive virtual reality simulation. We gathered learner reactions to their virtual reality experience and post-encounter debriefing with a custom electronic survey. The survey was designed to gather information about participants' demographics and prior experience, including roles, triage training, and virtual reality experience. We then asked them to evaluate the training and encounter and the system's potential for training others.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We received 375 completed evaluation surveys from subjects who experienced the virtual reality encounter. Subjects were primarily paramedics, but also included medical learners as well as other emergency medical service (EMS) professionals. Most participants (95%) recommended the experience for other first responders and rated the simulation (95%) and virtual patients (91%) as realistic. Ninety-four percent (94%) of participants rated the virtual reality simulator as \"excellent\" or \"good.\" We observed some differences between emergency medical service and medical professionals regarding their prior experience with disaster response training and their opinions on how much the experience contributed to their learning. We observed no differences between subjects with extensive virtual reality experience and those without.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our virtual reality simulator is an automated, customizable, fully immersive virtual reality system for training and assessing personnel in the proper response to a mass casualty incident. Participants perceived the simulator as an adequate alternative to traditional triage and treatment training and believed that the simulator was realistic and effective for training. Prior experience with virtual reality was not a prerequisite for the use of this system.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s44247-024-00117-5.</p>","PeriodicalId":72426,"journal":{"name":"BMC digital health","volume":"2 1","pages":"56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11402856/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142302340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMC digital healthPub Date : 2024-01-01Epub Date: 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1186/s44247-024-00107-7
Khai Du, Leonardo R Benavides, Emily L Isenstein, Duje Tadin, Ania C Busza
{"title":"Virtual reality assessment of reaching accuracy in patients with recent cerebellar stroke.","authors":"Khai Du, Leonardo R Benavides, Emily L Isenstein, Duje Tadin, Ania C Busza","doi":"10.1186/s44247-024-00107-7","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s44247-024-00107-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Dysmetria, the inability to accurately estimate distance in motor tasks, is a characteristic clinical feature of cerebellar injury. Even though subjective dysmetria can be quickly detected during the neurological examination with the finger-to-nose test, objective quantification of reaching accuracy for clinical assessment is still lacking. Emerging VR technology allows for the delivery of rich multisensory environmental stimuli with a high degree of control. Furthermore, recent improvements in the hand-tracking feature offer an opportunity to closely examine the speed, accuracy, and consistency of fine hand movements and proprioceptive function. This study aims to investigate the application of virtual reality (VR) with hand tracking in the rapid quantification of reaching accuracy at the bedside for patients with cerebellar stroke (CS).</p><p><strong>Methods and results: </strong>Thirty individuals (10 CS patients and 20 age-matched neurologically healthy controls) performed a simple task that allowed us to measure reaching accuracy using a VR headset (Oculus Quest 2). During this task, the participant was asked to reach for a target placed along a horizontal sixty-degree arc. Once the fingertip passed through the arc, the target immediately extinguished. 50% of the trials displayed a visible, real-time rendering of the hand as the participant reached for the target (visible hand condition), while the remaining 50% only showed the target being extinguished (invisible hand condition). The invisible hand condition isolates proprioception-guided movements by removing the visibility of the participant's hand. Reaching error was calculated as the difference in degrees between the location of the target, and where the fingertip contacted the arc. Both CS patients and age-matched controls displayed higher average reaching error and took longer to perform a reaching motion in the invisible hand condition than in the visible hand condition. Reaching error was higher in CS than in controls in the invisible hand condition but not in the visible hand condition. Average time taken to perform each trial was higher in CS than in controls in the invisible hand conditions but not in the visible hand condition.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Reaching accuracy assessed by VR offers a non-invasive and rapid approach to quantifying fine motor functions in clinical settings. Furthermore, this technology enhances our understanding of proprioceptive function in patients with visuomotor disabilities by allowing the isolation of proprioception from vision. Future studies with larger cohorts and longitudinal designs will examine the quantitative changes in reaching accuracy after stroke and explore the long-term benefits of VR in functional recovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":72426,"journal":{"name":"BMC digital health","volume":"2 1","pages":"50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11317447/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141977347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}