Hung Lillian, Wong Joey, Ren Haopu, Mortenson W Ben, Lim Angelica, Boger Jennifer, Wallsworth Christine, Zhao Yong
School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
IDEA Lab, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
PLoS One. 2025 Jan 9;20(1):e0316908. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0316908. eCollection 2025.
Both virtual reality and aromatherapy have shown promising impacts on the health and well-being of older adults. Aromatherapy has been reported to enhance immersive experiences during virtual reality programs. However, studies on the combined use and impact of virtual reality and aromatherapy for older adults have not been systematically reviewed. Therefore, this scoping review will identify existing types of virtual reality programs supported by various forms of aromatherapy and their outcome measures and results on the well-being of older adults. This review will be conducted in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology or scoping reviews and will be reported in line with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews. The search strategy will encompass both published and unpublished papers. The databases to be searched are CINAHL, MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, ACM digital library, IEEE Xplore digital library, Compendex, ProQuest, and Google Scholar. Two independent reviewers will perform title and abstract screening, full-text screening, and data extraction. Data analysis and synthesis will be discussed by the whole research team, mapped in the literature table and accompanied by a narrative summary. Scoping review data will be collected from publicly available articles; research ethics approval is not required. The findings will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed publication and conference presentations.
虚拟现实和芳香疗法都已显示出对老年人健康和幸福的积极影响。据报道，芳香疗法可增强虚拟现实项目中的沉浸式体验。然而，针对老年人同时使用虚拟现实和芳香疗法及其影响的研究尚未得到系统综述。因此，本范围综述将确定各种形式芳香疗法所支持的现有虚拟现实项目类型，以及它们对老年人幸福感的结果测量和结果。本综述将按照乔安娜·布里格斯研究所的范围综述方法进行，并将根据系统综述和元分析扩展的首选报告项目进行报告。检索策略将涵盖已发表和未发表的论文。将检索的数据库包括护理学与健康领域数据库（CINAHL）、医学文献数据库（MEDLINE）、荷兰医学文摘数据库（Embase）、Scopus数据库、科学引文索引数据库（Web of Science）、美国计算机协会数字图书馆（ACM digital library）、电气与电子工程师协会数据库（IEEE Xplore digital library）、工程索引数据库（Compendex）、ProQuest数据库和谷歌学术。两名独立评审员将进行标题和摘要筛选、全文筛选以及数据提取。整个研究团队将讨论数据分析和综合，绘制在文献表中并附带叙述性总结。范围综述数据将从公开可用的文章中收集；无需研究伦理批准。研究结果将通过同行评审出版物和会议报告进行传播。
