Joanne Plahouras's research while affiliated with University of Toronto and other places

... Other explanations may include differences in indication for ECT and selection of ECT techniques. Many patients lacking DMC-T receive ECT for rapid symptom reduction [14][15][16]18], e.g., due to an inadequate fluid and food intake, suicidality, or physical deterioration, all of which might lead to shorter duration between onset of depressive symptom and introduction of ECT, which is associated with higher ECT response [56]. In addition, patients without DMC-T were more likely to receive bilateral ECT compared with those with DMC-T. ...

... Table 3 gives the full list of excluded SRs and the corresponding reasons, while online Supplement 2 contains the full citations. There were 10 papers from 7 SRs of quantitative designs (Barnett et al., 2018;Churchill et al., 2007;Kisely and Hall, 2014;Kisely et al., 2017Kisely et al., , 2021Kisely et al., , 2023Lam et al., 2023;Maughan et al., 2014;Rugkåsa, 2016;Segal, 2020) (Table 3) and 5 of just qualitative studies (Corring et al., 2017(Corring et al., , 2018(Corring et al., , 2019Goulet et al., 2020;Plahouras et al., 2020) (Table 4). Two SRs presented both types of data, although the majority of the studies were qualitative (de Waardt et al., 2022;Pridham et al., 2016) (Table 4). ...

... Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used for surgical skills learning and training (Izard et al., 2018;Khan et al., 2019;Bielsa, 2021;Hasan et al., 2021). In recent years, a large body of work has been published describing the implementation and efficacy of VR training systems across a range of surgical specialties. ...

... There is growing evidence to support the utility of immersive VR as an adjunct psychological tool for exposure therapy and treating phobias [15,[18][19][20][21]; as a physical therapy tool in rehabilitation [17,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28]; and to assist with managing pain or providing distraction during painful medical procedures [16,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. More recently, there has also been interest in using VR as a clinical education and training tool for health care providers [36][37][38][39][40][41]; for clinical simulations [42][43][44]; and for non-clinical applications within a healthcare environment, such as communication, design planning and orientation [45][46][47][48][49][50]. VR appears to be beneficial across many of these domains, given it can expose users to realistic simulated situations in a safe, controlled, yet engaging way [1,4,24,51]. ...

... Previous systematic reviews on the use of VRS in healthcare education either focused on specific clinical outcomes such as those in laparoscopy (Larsen et al., 2012) and gastrointestinal endoscopy (Plahouras et al., 2018) or on specific types of VRS such as a multi-user virtual world (MUVW) (Liaw et al., 2018) or a three-dimensional virtual world (3DVW) (Ghanbarzadeh et al., 2014). Another scoping review focused on the general population of students in medicine and allied healthcare professional courses such as nursing, and pharmacy but it lacked a critical appraisal of the included studies (Duff et al., 2016). ...