Virtual Reality and Cardiac Diseases: A Systematic Review of Applications and Effects

Table 2

Inclusion and exclusion criteria for selecting articles.

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
(1) Studies in the English language; (2) Virtual reality as a technology used in cardiac diseases; (3) Articles that have reported the effectiveness; (4) Randomized studies; (5) Effects related to virtual reality were compared in the control and intervention groups	(1) Studies that investigated the effect of an intervention other than virtual reality; (2) Studies that did not report the effectiveness of the mentioned technology; (3) Letters to editors, review articles, protocols, monographs, and theses/dissertations; (4) Articles whose full text was not in English