Table 3.
Specific outcomes reported and measures used.
| Authors | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baños et al. 29 | Brungardt et al. 30 | Dang et al. 31 | Ferguson et al. 32 | Groninger et al. 28 | Johnson et al. 33 | Niki et al. 34 | Perna et al. 35 | |
| Domains | ||||||||
| Feasibility | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Acceptability | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Usability | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Pain | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Mood | ✓ a | |||||||
| Anxiety | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Depression | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Psychological wellbeing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Other physical symptoms | ✓ b | ✓ d | ✓ c | ✓ d | ✓ d | ✓ d | ||
| Othere | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||
a
Consisted of 7 items: joy, sadness, anxiety, relax, vigour (1 ‘not at all’ to 7 ‘completely’), general mood (scale of 1–7 where 7 was equivalent to positive mood and well-being) and subjective mood change (from −3 ‘much worse’ to +3 ‘much better’).
b
Consisted of fatigue, pain and physical discomfort (0 ‘not at all’ to 10 ‘very much so’).
c
Subdomains of the FACIT-Pal-14: shortness of breath, distress (0 ‘not at all’ to 4 ‘very much’).
d
As measured by the ESAS-r.
e
Dang et al., included measures of Health related quality of life, symptom burden and spiritual wellbeing; Ferguson et al., measured behavioural changes after the virtual reality session; Groninger et al. also measured quality of life.