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. 2020 Jan 10;16:131–152. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S171461

Table 4.

Virtual Reality (VR) Studies

Study Participants Control VR Training Number of Sessions Tests Assessment Results Design Classification
Kim et al,139 24 RH
(12 VR-Group and 12 Control Group)
Standard therapy Bird and Ball (touch a flying ball);
Coconuts (catch falling coconuts);
Container (move a box from one side to another)
15 sessions of 30 mins Star Cancellation task; LBT; CBS; K-MBI Pre, Post Improvement in CBS and in star cancellation task after VR training RCT Class I
Mainetti et al,140 1 RH None Duckneglect (reach targets with an increasing level of difficulties) 20 sessions of 30 mins Albert Test; Letter Cancellation Test; LBT; MMSE; Attentional Matrices and the Token Test Pre, Post, Follow-up (5 months later) Improvement in MMSE, Attentional matrices, Albert test and LBT, at least for 5 months Single-case Class III
Fordell et al,142 15 RH None VST and multi-sensory stimulation 15 of 1 hr VR-Star cancellation; VR-Baking tray task; VR-LBT; VR-Extinction; VR-Posner Task; CBS Pre, Post, Follow-up (6 months) Improvement in Star cancellation, Baking tray, Extinction and Posner Task;
Improvement in CBS at least for 6 months
Pilot Class III
Ekman et al,143 12 RH None VST and multi-sensory stimulation 15 of 1 hr VR-Posner Task; fMRI Pre (1 week), Post (1 weed) Improvement in Posner performance.
Increasement after VR-training in frontal and temporal activity during attentional cueing
Pilot Class III
Wåhlin et al,144 13 RH None VST and multi-sensory stimulation 15 of 1 hr VR-Posner task;
rs-fMRI
Pre (1 week), Post (1 week) Increasement of DAN connectivity Pilot Class III

Abbreviations: RH, Right Hemisphere; VST, Visual Scanning Training; LBT, Line Bisection Task; K-MBT, Korean version of Modified Barthel Index; MMSE, Mini Mental State Examination; CBS, Catherine Bergego Scale; DAN, Dorsal Attention Network; RCT, Randomized Control Trial.