Paper Info
Title
Serenity: A Low-Cost and Patient-Guided Mobile Virtual Reality Intervention for Cancer Coping.
Abstract
Medical procedures often induce physical pain and psychological distress. Cancer patients are particularly vulnerable to fatigue, heightened emotional distress, social isolation, and increased risk of depression, severely reducing quality of life and potential treatment non-adherence and prolonged hospital stays. Leveraging emerging virtual reality (VR) technology, we prototyped Serenity: a mobile smartphone-based VR cancer coping intervention informed by distraction therapy to help alleviate the symptoms of coping and promote patient empowerment. It leverages emerging low-cost VR to improve accessibility and effectiveness of distraction therapy. We describe the results of a preliminary usability study and lessons learned that apply to future design and evaluation of virtual reality interventions for behavioral health.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.apmr.2019.05.010
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Field
DocType
Volume
Distress,Psychological intervention,Nursing,Social isolation,Virtual reality,Quality of life,Coping (psychology),Usability,Multimedia,Medicine,Cancer
Conference
100
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
0003-9993
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xuan Li100.34
Nina Jolani200.34
Thien-Tien Dao300.34
Holly B. Jimison452.53