Effectiveness and user experience of a virtual reality intervention in a cohort of patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain syndromes.

PLOS Digit Health · 2025 · PMC11957290 · PMID 40163491

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did not achieve significancep = 0.072so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

This did not achieve significance when compared with the low pain group (p = 0.072).

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

Although patients with alexithymia were more prevalent in the high-pain group, the relationship between alexithymia and VR’s effect on pain did not reach statistical significance, indicating that further research is needed to clarify this relationship.

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