Positive experiences:
- I think it was really beautiful; it made me feel more relaxed and made
me feel, not think so much of the pain. But it was really lovely to
watch, very peaceful.
- That’s very good, when you’re watching that you feel like you’re
moving with it. But it is very, very good. It is worth having, I mean
when someone’s in pain, it’s hard to take your mind off. But it’s
soothing, it’s relaxing. Because of the scenery around and the way
it’s going.
- The VR goggles helped me. My concentration, when it talked about the
marble, putting all your pain in the marble and throwing it.
- I quite liked the idea when the narrator talked about the pain,
because it is painful, you can’t ignore it. Having someone tell you
it’s going to go helps you believe that it’s going to pass.
- Very colourful, background was calm, very different plants and just
the things he was saying took my mind off the pain.
- I feel the VR is really good. I feel like you’re not thinking about
what’s happening next in the procedure. I feel like it just takes your
mind off of what’s going on. I feel like it’s very helpful and it’s a
good distraction. It should be used.
- In future, if you apply this method instead of putting patients under
General Anaesthetic or Local Anaesthetic, those take more time and
recovery. At the beginning it was a bit uncomfortable, but then I got
used to it.
- When I see doctors around me, I am more anxious. I am more anxious
when people are walking around. I prefer not to see this around me. I
prefer not to see instruments around me. The VR enabled this to
happen.
- I felt like I was in the forest. I thought that you hadn’t started the
procedure at all.
- Sharp pain lasted 5-6 seconds couple of times. That’s when I lost
focus from the video. But then it does help as it says your pain’s
going to ebb away and it does sort of go away. It seemed to work for
me.
- Don’t really know. What I was watching, that took my mind off of it a
lot. It was helping. It helped that I was watching that rather than
watching the screen or the doctor.
- It was really good. Took my mind off of it, and it helped a lot. At
first I didn’t think I would be able to keep them on, because I was so
anxious. But I’m really glad that I did.
- Those sharp pains nothing could have helped I think, but generally,
just being relaxed and having that distraction. Maybe if I hadn’t had
that and I was just looking at you guys and the equipment, my anxiety
and pain would have been worse.