Badalona Serveis Asistencials (BSA) has launched a pilot in the organization’s Primary Care, initially at the CAP Apenins Montigalà to develop and evaluate a virtual reality program. The objective is to use this technology to improve chronic pain and central sensitization.
BSA has started a pilot this week in the organization’s Primary Care to develop and evaluate a virtual reality experience that aims to improve the quality of life of patients and help in the management of chronic pain, a major public health problem in the world. Spanish state.
The initiative begins in one of the city’s outpatient clinics, the CAP Apenins Montigalà, and will analyze the reception – acceptability, viability and impact – of virtual reality by the participants (users and professionals) as an effective complementary tool in the treatment of chronic pain.
It will also serve to study whether the use of this technology allows for strengthening adherence to therapeutic programs and enhancing the emotional well-being of patients. To this end, a prospective, non-randomized pilot study has been planned, with a dozen patients, to analyze data ranging from demographics to pain perceptions, emotional well-being and functionality.
This is one of the organization’s two projects that won in the field of health and social care in the innovation hub of the Consorci Social i Sanitari de Catalunya iNexes. It is part of the financing of the funds for the 2023 strategies of the Ministry of Health that were approved in the CSNS on June 23, 2023 to support the implementation of the Primary and Community Care Action Plan. This project adds to the different lines of use of virtual reality in BSA for healthcare and teaching purposes that BSA currently carries out.
