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Study of gender differences in VR response following cardiac surgery.

Jose Luis Mosso, Brenda K Wiederhold, Filippo La Paglia, Danilo Guarino, Daniele La Barbera, Jose Luis Mosso Jr., Ian Miller, Mark D Wiederhold

Cardiac and other invasive surgical procedures cause significant anxiety and stress to patients and their family members. In this study Virtual Reality (VR) was used as a method to reduce stress, anxiety and pain in patients undergoing surgical procedures. This study compared a cohort of patients in the interval prior to and successive to the surgery, differentiating the responses achieved by males and females and comparing the effectiveness. The results are encouraging: they demonstrate the efficacy of VR treatment and the safety of the method and detection of differences in the responses based on gender.