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The efficacy of playing a virtual reality game in modulating pain for children with acute burn injuries: A randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN87413556]

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pediatrics, March 2005
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)

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Title
The efficacy of playing a virtual reality game in modulating pain for children with acute burn injuries: A randomized controlled trial [ISRCTN87413556]
Published in
BMC Pediatrics, March 2005
DOI 10.1186/1471-2431-5-1
Pubmed ID
Authors

Debashish A Das, Karen A Grimmer, Anthony L Sparnon, Sarah E McRae, Bruce H Thomas

Abstract

The management of burn injuries is reported as painful, distressing and a cause of anxiety in children and their parents. Child's and parents' pain and anxiety, often contributes to extended time required for burns management procedures, in particular the process of changing dressings. The traditional method of pharmacologic analgesia is often insufficient to cover the burnt child's pain, and it can have deleterious side effects 12. Intervention with Virtual Reality (VR) games is based on distraction or interruption in the way current thoughts, including pain, are processed by the brain. Research on adults supports the hypothesis that virtual reality has a positive influence on burns pain modulation.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 421 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Belgium 2 <1%
Mexico 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 3 <1%
Unknown 402 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 79 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 51 12%
Student > Bachelor 50 12%
Researcher 40 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 28 7%
Other 76 18%
Unknown 97 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 93 22%
Psychology 57 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 54 13%
Computer Science 35 8%
Social Sciences 15 4%
Other 55 13%
Unknown 112 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 January 2018.
All research outputs
#2,264,730
of 22,736,112 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pediatrics
#305
of 2,987 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,676
of 59,374 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pediatrics
#1
of 3 outputs
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