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Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Serious Games

Date Submitted: Aug 4, 2025
Date Accepted: Apr 9, 2026

The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Interventions on Perioperative Anxiety, Depression, Blood Pressure, and Heart Rate: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Wang S, Yan H, Yang Z, Liu Y, Zhang T, Tang Y, Luo Y

Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Interventions on Perioperative Anxiety, Depression, Blood Pressure, and Heart Rate: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

JMIR Serious Games 2026;14:e81799

DOI: 10.2196/81799

PMID: 42159282

Warning: This is an author submission that is not peer-reviewed or edited. Preprints - unless they show as "accepted" - should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.

Per the author's request this version is not available.