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标题：THE USE OF VIRTUAL REALITY FOR COPING WITH PAIN WITH HEALTHY PARTICIPANTS
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作者：José Gutiérrez-Maldonado ; Olga Gutiérrez-Martínez ; Desirée Loreto-Quijada 等
期刊名称：Psicothema
印刷版ISSN：0214-9915
电子版ISSN：1886-144X
出版年度：2012
卷号：24
期号：4
页码：516-522
DOI：10.1002/14651858.CD007407.pub2
出版社：Cologio Oficial de Psicólogos del Principado
摘要：The present study investigates whether a virtual reality (VR) intervention can influence pain catastrophizing, pain self-efficacy and other pain-related measures reported during a cold-pressor experience. Forty-five healthy participants underwent two consecutive cold-pressor trials, one using VR and one without VR exposure, in counterbalanced order. The VR intervention encouraged participants to search actively for the correspondence between the pain experienced and a VR stereoscopic figure, which could be interactively manipulated. The VR intervention led to significant increases in pain threshold, pain tolerance and pain self-efficacy, as well as a significant reduction of in vivo pain catastrophizing. The possibilities of using VR as a tool for enhancing perceived pain control are discussed.