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Virtual Relaxing Environments In Cancer Patients With Chronic Pain

One of the main disease worldwide is Cancer. The main disturbances are fa-tigue, nausea, depression, and anxiety, reducing the quality of life, with dif-ficulty to perform activities of daily living (ADL). Cancer survivors have mainly chronic pain, This topic is a challenge in research, the management and reduction of pain in cancer survivors. Multimodal solutions are focused on physical, occupational, psychological, and pharmacological treatments. In the last few years there are studies based on the use of virtual and augment-ed environments as a complement in the intervention periods for chronic pain in cancer patients. The use of Relaxing Environments (RE) in the ses-sions are a novel solution in this research line, with few studies that show enrichments in terms of chronic pain. For this reason, the purpose of this paper is to test a technological system for analyze the feasibility and usabil-ity of a different RE in cancer patients with neuropathic chronic pain.

Sergio Albiol-Pérez
Aragón Health Research Institute (IIS Aragón), Universidad de Zaragoza, Teruel
Spain

Victor Manuel Peñeñory
Universidad de San Buenaventura, Cali
Colombia

Elizabeth Vidal-Duarte
Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequipa
Peru

Sandra Cano
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Escuela de Ingeniería Informática
Chile

Fernando Barra-Quispe
Universidad Nacional de San Agustin de Arequipa
Peru

Nathalia Lara-Espinosa
Fundación Universitaria de Popayán
Colombia