A experiência da realidade virtual com crianças em procedimentos dolorosos

Abstract

Introduction: During child hospitalization, painful procedures are reflected in the well-being, communication and continuity of health care¹. One of the concerns of the nursing staff is pain relief and child comfort, especially in invasive procedures². In this sense, glasses-mediated virtual reality has proven to be innovative for nursing care, a feature that modulates brain activity, changes the way children interpret acute pain, replaces the focus of attention (distraction) in performing painful procedures³, captures head movements to determine the child's point of view of the virtual environment and allows human-computer interaction of navigating the virtual environment, modifying cognitive and emotional regions of the central nervous system, reducing pain perception4. We then sought to understand the hospitalized child's experience with virtual reality in painful procedures.