Meta-Analysis of Immersive VR Effects on Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy

Supplementary file 1 from a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yuan Gao, published on figshare in April 2026. The document synthesizes results from 11 randomized controlled trials involving 1160 cancer patients. It reports the effects of immersive virtual reality on anxiety, depression, cancer-related fatigue, and quality of life.

Use Cases

• Conducting a secondary analysis of pooled effect sizes (SMD) for anxiety, depression, fatigue, and quality of life.
• Reviewing the methodology and risk-of-bias assessment for 11 included randomized controlled trials.
• Assessing the GRADE certainty of evidence for virtual reality interventions in cancer care.
• Extracting quantitative synthesis data for inclusion in broader reviews of digital health technologies.

Strengths

• Includes quantitative meta-analysis results with standardized mean differences (SMD) and 95% confidence intervals for four key outcomes.
• Based on a systematic review of 11 randomized controlled trials, a recognized high-quality study design.
• Methodological quality was assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool 2.0 (ROB 2.0).

Limitations

• The underlying data format and structure are unknown; the file is a DOCX document, not a structured dataset.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The evidence certainty for the reported outcomes is graded as low according to the GRADE framework.

Provenance

Source

Yuan Gao via figshare.

Collection Method

Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials from eleven electronic databases.

Time Range

Literature search covered databases from their inception to January 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 04:35:37.

Geography

Studies included are likely international, but specific geography is not stated.