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Record W4406200657 · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0316908

The use and impact of virtual reality programs supported by aromatherapy for older adults: A scoping review protocol

2025· review· en· W4406200657 on OpenAlexafffund
Lillian Hung, Joey Wong, Lily Haopu Ren, W. Ben Mortenson, Angelica Lim, Jennifer Boger, Christine Wallsworth, Yong Zhao

Bibliographic record

VenuePLoS ONE · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicOlfactory and Sensory Function Studies
Canadian institutionsOkanagan University CollegeUniversity of WaterlooSimon Fraser UniversityUniversity of British ColumbiaInternational Collaboration On Repair DiscoveriesUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus
FundersAlzheimer Society of B.C.Alzheimer SocietyFondation Brain Canada
KeywordsCINAHLAromatherapyMEDLINEDigital libraryScopusSystematic reviewGrey literatureData extractionVirtual realityCochrane LibraryProtocol (science)MedicineComputer scienceMedical educationPsychologyAlternative medicineNursingPsychological intervention

Abstract

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Both virtual reality and aromatherapy have shown promising impacts on the health and well-being of older adults. Aromatherapy has been reported to enhance immersive experiences during virtual reality programs. However, studies on the combined use and impact of virtual reality and aromatherapy for older adults have not been systematically reviewed. Therefore, this scoping review will identify existing types of virtual reality programs supported by various forms of aromatherapy and their outcome measures and results on the well-being of older adults. This review will be conducted in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology or scoping reviews and will be reported in line with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews. The search strategy will encompass both published and unpublished papers. The databases to be searched are CINAHL, MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, ACM digital library, IEEE Xplore digital library, Compendex, ProQuest, and Google Scholar. Two independent reviewers will perform title and abstract screening, full-text screening, and data extraction. Data analysis and synthesis will be discussed by the whole research team, mapped in the literature table and accompanied by a narrative summary. Scoping review data will be collected from publicly available articles; research ethics approval is not required. The findings will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed publication and conference presentations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.075
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.062
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Protocol · Consensus signal: Protocol
Teacher disagreement score0.075
Threshold uncertainty score0.398

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0750.062
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0050.005
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0150.016
Bibliometrics0.0200.012
Science and technology studies0.0050.004
Scholarly communication0.0070.007
Open science0.0060.006
Research integrity0.0080.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0680.012

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.374
GPT teacher head0.411
Teacher spread0.037 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreProtocol

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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