The experts from the Rehabilitation Clinic of the Pirogov Center studied how virtual reality can help to prevent doctors’ emotional burnout, and compared the effectiveness of this method with hypnotherapy. Various scenarios for relaxation, which were created jointly with psychologists, were broadcast to the study participants using a special chair and a helmet with VR glasses. The developer of the equipment is VRTech (the company has an office in Moscow).

The Pirogov Center experts claim that, according to the results of the study, under the influence of hypnotherapy, anxiety decreased by approximately the same amount as in the virtual reality setting.

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