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Record W7115722891 · doi:10.26443/mjm.v22i1.1118

VR over Matter

2025· article· en· W7115722891 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout

Bibliographic record

VenueMcGill Journal of Medicine · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPediatric Pain Management Techniques
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityShriners Hospitals for Children - Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVirtual realityPerceptionAnxietyAnalogyPain perceptionHealth care

Abstract

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Medical procedures, like IV insertions and pin removals, may cause pain and anxiety in children. While preventable, high rates of procedural pain persist in hospitals. The use of distraction, such as virtual reality (VR), offers a non-pharmacological approach for pain and anxiety management during medical procedures. More specifically, VR is an immersive technology that brings the user into a three-dimensional world that looks and feels real. The illustration depicts how VR works to decrease pain perception through the analogy of a tug-of-war between pain signaling and VR. During a medical procedure, a child``'s attention may be focused on the IV poke, increasing pain perception. However, if the child is immersed in a VR game during their medical procedure, the VR pulls the brain's attention away from the IV poke towards an imaginary and pleasant world. As VR is immersive and interactive, it consumes more attention than pain, thereby decreasing pain perception, and winning the tugr-of-war. Despite the evidence for VR, there is a 20-year gap in the implementation of VR across child healthcare settings. Our team is currently investigating the barriers, facilitators, and contextual challenges for VR use in child healthcare, and in parallel developing tools to disseminate research evidence and facilitate intergation of VR into the standard of care. This illustration serves as reminder of how VR is thought to help with pain management. To learn more about VR, visit: https://www.mcgill.ca/virtualrealityforchildcare/

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.448
Threshold uncertainty score0.787

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0070.005
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.4480.162

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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.319
Teacher spread0.303 · 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.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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