Virtual environments to study emotional responses to clinical communication: A scoping review
| Autor: | Ja-Nae Duane, Scott P. Orr, Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, William F. Pirl, James A. Tulsky, Jonathan D. Ericson, Emma Caponigro, Manisha Dubey, Justin J. Sanders |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Emotions Applied psychology Empathy Virtual reality computer.software_genre Affect (psychology) External validity 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Multidisciplinary approach Humans Leverage (statistics) 030212 general & internal medicine media_common Communication 030503 health policy & services Virtual Reality General Medicine Virtual machine Arousal 0305 other medical science Psychology computer Inclusion (education) |
| Zdroj: | Patient Education and Counseling. 104:2922-2935 |
| ISSN: | 0738-3991 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.pec.2021.04.022 |
| Popis: | Objective This scoping review explores the potential for virtual environments (VE) to evaluate emotional outcomes in clinical communication research. Authors representing multiple disciplines use review results to propose potential research opportunities and considerations. Methods We utilized a structured framework for scoping reviews. We searched four literature databases for relevant articles. We applied multidisciplinary perspectives to synthesize relevant potential opportunities for emotion-focused communications research using VE. Results Twenty-one articles met inclusion criteria. They applied different methodological approaches, including a range of VE technologies and diverse emotional outcome measures, such as psychophysiological arousal, emotional valence, or empathy. Major research topics included use of virtual reality to provoke and measure emotional responses, train clinicians in communication skills, and increase clinician empathy. Conclusion Researchers may leverage VE technologies to ethically and systematically examine how characteristics of clinical interactions, environments, and communication impact emotional reactions and responses among patients and clinicians. Variability exists in how VE technologies are employed and reported in published literature, and this may limit the internal and external validity of the research. However, virtual reality can provide a low-cost, low-risk, experimentally controlled, and ecologically valid approach for studying clinician-patient communication. Practice implications Future research should leverage psychophysiological measures to further examine emotional responses during clinical communication scenarios and clearly report virtual environment characteristics to support evaluation of study conclusions, study replicability, and meta-analyses. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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