Clinical Results Using Virtual Reality

Rizzo, Albert; Koenig, S.; Talbot, Thomas B.

doi:10.1080/15228835.2019.1604292

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“…We are currently in the “clinical era” of VR research (Cipresso et al., 2018) and VR health interventions span a wide range of areas (see A. S. Rizzo & Koenig, 2017 for review). Examples include distraction‐based pain reduction (Eijlers et al., 2019; Indovina et al., 2018; Kenney & Milling, 2016); exposure therapy and anxiety reduction (Carl et al., 2019; Morina et al., 2015; Opris et al., 2012; A. Rizzo et al., 2019); physical rehabilitation (Howard, 2017); neuropsychological assessment (Neguț et al., 2016), and healthcare provider training (Kyaw et al., 2019). In many cases, VR interventions compare favorably to existing treatments and VR as an intervention has been declared “ready for primetime” (A. S. Rizzo & Koenig, 2017).…”

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Virtual reality expands the toolkit for conducting health psychology research

Martingano

Persky

2021

Social & Personality Psych

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Virtual reality (VR) has become a readily available consumer technology, strengthening its promise as a research tool for health psychology. We identify five key strengths of VR‐based research: data collection, realism, experimental control, adaptability, and mobility (DREAM). We review how these advantages allow researchers to investigate behavioral, psychological, and social processes related to health and well‐being in novel ways, by using VR as both a stimulus and a measurement tool. We also describe challenges facing VR research and potential strategies researchers can use to mitigate them. In addition to reviewing existing research, we hope to inspire researchers to consider ways in which VR might be used in future to augment their own research programs or answer currently impracticable research questions in health psychology.

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Virtual reality expands the toolkit for conducting health psychology research

Martingano

Persky

2021

Social & Personality Psych

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“…Today, XR is used in a wide variety of settings, including gaming, design, engineering, and the military (Cornet and Van Gelder 2020). In addition, XR has been introduced into psychology, cognitive sciences and biomedicine for both basic research as well as diagnosing or treating neurological and psychiatric disorders such as dementia, psychosis, posttraumatic stress disorder, and pedophilia (Kellmeyer 2018;Kellmeyer, Biller-Andorno, and Meynen 2019;Renaud et al 2014;Rizzo, Thomas Koenig, and Talbot 2019). Three significant advantages of XR in this regard concern (1) that the simulated "reality" can be controlled, so patients learn to deal with challenges in a stepwise manner, (2) the possibility of creating contexts in which people may safely learn to cope with their feelings and behavior: nobody is harmed when the patient responds, e.g.…”

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Is Virtually Everything Possible? The Relevance of Ethics and Human Rights for Introducing Extended Reality in Forensic Psychiatry

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Extended Reality (XR) systems, such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), provide a digital simulation either of a complete environment, or of particular objects within the real world. Today, XR is used in a wide variety of settings, including gaming, design, engineering, and the military. In addition, XR has been introduced into psychology, cognitive sciences and biomedicine for both basic research as well as diagnosing or treating neurological and psychiatric disorders. In the context of XR, the simulated 'reality' can be controlled and people may safely learn to cope with their feelings and behavior. XR also enables to simulate environments that cannot easily be accessed or created otherwise. Therefore, Extended Reality systems are thought to be a promising tool in the resocialization of criminal offenders, more specifically for purposes of risk assessment and treatment of forensic patients. Employing XR in forensic settings raises ethical and legal intricacies which are not raised in case of most other healthcare applications. Whereas a variety of normative issues of XR have been discussed in the context of medicine and consumer usage, the debate on XR in forensic settings is, as yet, straggling. By discussing two general arguments in favor of employing XR in criminal justice, and two arguments calling for caution in this regard, the present paper aims to broaden the current ethical and legal debate on XR applications to their use in the resocialization of criminal offenders, mainly focusing on forensic patients.

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“…VR-based interventions are increasingly being considered as innovative choices to help patients with motor abnormalities, cognitive, mental, and functional disorders. For example, in the case of anxiety-related problems, it can give patients the opportunity to re-evaluate their fears, try out new treatment strategies, and get new knowledge which may help them to present in the real world [4,8,9].…”

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Virtual reality among children with mental disorders: A mini-review

Rasoulian-Kasrineh

Tabatabaei

2021

Adv Health Behav

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Background: Mental disorders are a group of disorders that affect thinking and behavior by causing discomfort or disability to the person. Almost one in eight people aged 5 to 19 deals with these kinds of disorders and his or her growth may be significantly affected. It seems that using novel technologies in such cases are helpful. One of these advanced technologies, which has recently attracted a lot of attention in many fields such as health, is Virtual Reality. Therefore, the present study aimed to provide a brief review about the use of Virtual Reality among children with mental disorders. Methods: In this study, articles in which Virtual Reality were used among children dealing with mental disorders published during 2012 to 2021 were investigated. PsycINFO electronic databases, PubMed Google Scholar, Medline, were searched. Results: Children deal with different types of mental disorders and Virtual Reality has been used for many of them. The most common of them, in which Virtual Reality have been used and caused improvements include Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Schizophrenia Disorder, and Developmental Disability. Discussion and conclusion: According to the results, Virtual Reality is a very interesting, useful, effective and safe technology for patients dealing with mental disorders especially children and adolescence. It is actually a highly specialized technology which can provide improvement, and in some cases completely new ways of treatment for children suffering from mental disorders.

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Clinical Results Using Virtual Reality

Cited by 25 publications

References 100 publications

Virtual reality expands the toolkit for conducting health psychology research

Virtual reality expands the toolkit for conducting health psychology research

Is Virtually Everything Possible? The Relevance of Ethics and Human Rights for Introducing Extended Reality in Forensic Psychiatry

Virtual reality among children with mental disorders: A mini-review

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