2025, Vol. 12, Issue 6, Part E

Background: Pain management is essential in burn care, cancer pain, and postoperative recovery, where patients often experience severe discomfort. Virtual Reality (VR), a non-pharmacological approach, helps by distracting and shifting attentional focus, thereby reducing the pain perception.

Aim: The Purpose of this study is to evaluate the Effects of Virtual Reality on Pain control and Attention through experimentally induced pain in healthy individuals.

Methods: A True Experimental study with 100 participants was conducted using simple random sampling. Group A (Experimental group, n=50) received Exercise with Virtual Reality (VR), and Group B (Control group, n=50), received Exercise without VR. Pain was induced using a BP cuff with the pressure of 250 mmhg for men and 200mmhg for women, while a Semi-Immersive VR environment was used as a distraction for the Experimental group and Pain levels were measured using a (100mm) Visual Analog Scale and Attention was measured using the Digit Span Test. The data were analyzed using an independent t-test.

Result: Visual Analog Scale (100mm) and Digit Span Test scores for Group A (Experimental group) were 23.90 and 0.48, respectively. In contrast, Group B (Control group) had mean values of 71.30 for VAS(100mm) and 1.36 for the Digit Span Test. Analysis of these results concluded that Group A demonstrated significant improvement in pain control and distracted away from the pain, while Group B showed only mild improvement.