Measuring What Matters: Redesigning Evaluation With Consumers to Understand Engagement in Hand Therapy Using Virtual Reality
Margo Coffey, Megan Simons, Jessica Taylor, Gail Kingston · 2026
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Coffey, Simons, Taylor, and Kingston describe redesigning an evaluation of virtual reality in hand therapy in this 2026 service improvement report. Their outpatient service had adopted virtual reality to make repetitive hand exercises more engaging, but standard numerical measures did not capture why it was introduced. Working with patient partners and research mentors, they rebuilt the evaluation around comfort, capability, and calm.
Seven clinicians and twelve patients answered the new questionnaires, mixing open and closed questions. The findings showed virtual reality created a low-pressure, engaging setting that encouraged participation, something the original measures would have missed entirely. Participants also flagged practical conditions for success: enough physical space, reliable technology, attention to culture and language, and continued hands-on guidance from therapists alongside the headset.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Margo Coffey, Megan Simons, Jessica Taylor, Gail Kingston |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |