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Serious Games for Health and Medicine (1257) Extended Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds (1186) Games for Pain Management (73) Pain in Children and Adolescents (67) Clinical Integration of XR and Spatial Computing (81)

Published on in Vol 13 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/66656, first published .
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Factors Influencing Virtual Reality as a Distraction Tool for Venipuncture in Children: Observational Pilot Feasibility Study

Factors Influencing Virtual Reality as a Distraction Tool for Venipuncture in Children: Observational Pilot Feasibility Study

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Chris Worth1 Author Orcid Image ;   Leyi Yang1 Author Orcid Image ;   Catherine Fullwood2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Indraneel Banerjee1, 4 Author Orcid Image
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