Centre for Rehabilitation, School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, Tees Valley, TS1 3BX, United Kingdom.
Centre for Rehabilitation, School of Health and Life Sciences, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, Tees Valley, TS1 3BX, United Kingdom.
Patient Educ Couns. 2024 Jun;123:108179. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2024.108179. Epub 2024 Feb 13.
The development of health literacy is important in the management of chronic pain and virtual reality may be an effective medium for its development. This study aims to understand the usability and acceptability of a virtual reality-based pain education system for the facilitation of health literacy.
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with health professionals who had used a VR-based pain education system within their clinical practice, to explore perceptions of feasibility. Data collection and analyses were informed by the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology and the Integrated Model of Health Literacy.
From 10 participants, the VR-based system was considered feasible in providing immersive experiential learning which addressed patient understanding and health-related communication.
VR appears to be perceived as an acceptable and feasible technology to support the development of health literacy in people with chronic pain. Its largest perceived benefit was its capacity to provide an immersive and entertaining alternative to conventional methods of pain education.
Virtual reality is considered as a feasible method of facilitating patient understanding and health-related communication related to chronic pain. Feasibility of such a tool relies clinically on time available, social expectations of VR, and the role of immersive and experiential learning within the management of chronic pain.
健康素养的发展对于慢性疼痛的管理非常重要，而虚拟现实可能是其发展的有效媒介。本研究旨在了解基于虚拟现实的疼痛教育系统在促进健康素养方面的可用性和可接受性。
对在临床实践中使用基于虚拟现实的疼痛教育系统的健康专业人员进行了半结构化访谈，以探讨可行性的看法。数据收集和分析的依据是统一接受和使用技术理论和健康素养综合模型。
在 10 名参与者中，基于虚拟现实的系统被认为具有可行性，能够提供沉浸式体验式学习，解决患者的理解和与健康相关的沟通问题。
虚拟现实似乎被认为是一种可以接受和可行的技术，可以支持慢性疼痛患者健康素养的发展。它最大的好处是能够提供一种沉浸式和有趣的替代传统疼痛教育方法。
虚拟现实被认为是一种促进与慢性疼痛相关的患者理解和健康相关沟通的可行方法。这种工具的可行性在临床上取决于可用时间、对虚拟现实的社会期望以及在慢性疼痛管理中沉浸式和体验式学习的作用。
