Hajesmaeel Gohari Sadrieh, Gozali Elahe, Niakan Kalhori Sharareh R
Department of Health Information Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Med J Islam Repub Iran. 2019 Jul 10;33:67. doi: 10.34171/mjiri.33.67. eCollection 2019.
Virtual Reality (VR) as a computer technology that simulating real environments and situations exploited in numerous healthcare areas such as chronic diseases. The significance of timely treatment and rehabilitation of patients with chronic conditions is high due to the long lasting nature of these conditions. This paper sought to perform a review of published works in the field of VR application in chronic conditions for treatment and rehabilitation purposes. We searched the MEDLINE database through PubMed in April 2016 for retrieving published papers from January 2001 to December 2015. From 117 retrieved papers, 52had the inclusion criteria, and their full texts were accessible. Data were extracted from papers based on following items: the name of the first author, year of the study, applied VR methods, type of condition and disease, number of subjects that participated in the study, and finally the status of success and failure of VR application. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. Results of the reviewed investigations have been considered in two main categories including treatment oriented papers (n=38, 73%) while twenty of these papers have been conducted on phobias (53%); also, there are rehabilitation-oriented experiments (n=14, 27%) while thirteen of these papers have been performed on stroke. In 40 papers (77%), the VR technology application reported proper and in 11 papers (21%) the application of VR resulted in relatively proper outcomes and only there is a work (2%) with poor results for VR intervention. VR technology has been increasingly used in recent years for treatment and rehabilitation purposes among patients affected by chronic conditions in order to motivate them for more successful management.
虚拟现实（VR）作为一种模拟真实环境和情境的计算机技术，已在众多医疗领域得到应用，如慢性病治疗。由于慢性病具有持久性，及时治疗和康复慢性病患者具有重要意义。本文旨在对已发表的关于VR在慢性病治疗和康复领域应用的研究进行综述。我们于2016年4月通过PubMed搜索MEDLINE数据库，以检索2001年1月至2015年12月期间发表的论文。从检索到的117篇论文中，有52篇符合纳入标准，且可以获取全文。基于以下项目从论文中提取数据：第一作者姓名、研究年份、应用的VR方法、疾病类型、参与研究的受试者数量，以及最后VR应用的成功与失败情况。采用描述性分析对数据进行分析。综述研究结果主要分为两大类，包括以治疗为导向的论文（n = 38，73%），其中20篇论文针对恐惧症（53%）；还有以康复为导向的实验（n = 14，27%），其中13篇论文针对中风。在40篇论文（77%）中，VR技术应用报告效果良好，11篇论文（21%）中VR应用取得了相对良好的结果，只有1篇论文（2%）的VR干预效果不佳。近年来，VR技术越来越多地用于慢性病患者的治疗和康复，以激励他们更成功地进行管理。
