Feasibility of a Virtual Reality-Based Psychoeducational Tool (VRight) for Depressive Patients

Migoya-Borja, Marta; Delgado-Gómez, David; Camacho, Rodrigo Carmona; Porras-Segovia, Alejandro; López-Moriñigo, Javier-David; Sanchez-Alonso, M.; García, Lucía Albarracín; Guerra, Nuria; Barrigón, María Luisa; Alegrı́a, Margarita; Baca‐García, Enrique

doi:10.1089/cyber.2019.0497

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“…Toward that end, Birckhead and colleagues [ 218 ] have provided recommendations to guide progressive and programmatic lines of XR research. Other good practices in this field of research include pretraining to orient participants to XR and minimize error, repeated exposure to detect and control for novelty confounds, and on-demand technical support during XR studies [ 54 , 219 , 220 ]. Failures with XR telehealth are equally important to publish as successes to accumulate details relevant to application and sustainability.…”

Section: Remaining Barriers and Steps Forwardmentioning

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Extended Reality for Enhanced Telehealth During and Beyond COVID-19: Viewpoint

Ong¹,

Wilczewski²,

Paige³

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JMIR Serious Games

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The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread challenges and revealed vulnerabilities across global health care systems. In response, many health care providers turned to telehealth solutions, which have been widely embraced and are likely to become standard for modern care. Immersive extended reality (XR) technologies have the potential to enhance telehealth with greater acceptability, engagement, and presence. However, numerous technical, logistic, and clinical barriers remain to the incorporation of XR technology into telehealth practice. COVID-19 may accelerate the union of XR and telehealth as researchers explore novel solutions to close social distances. In this viewpoint, we highlight research demonstrations of XR telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss future directions to make XR the next evolution of remote health care.

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Section: Remaining Barriers and Steps Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extended Reality for Enhanced Telehealth During and Beyond COVID-19: Viewpoint

Ong¹,

Wilczewski²,

Paige³

et al. 2021

JMIR Serious Games

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“…Despite the important role that virtual reality could play in providing information regarding mental suffering conditions, only a few previous studies to date have investigated the possibilities of virtual reality for psychoeducation (Rizzo et al, 2009(Rizzo et al, , 2010Riva et al, 2012;Tielman et al, 2017;Migoya-Borja et al, 2020). For example, a virtual environment called "Learning Island" and developed in Second Life, was created to host an interactive course on stress management (Riva et al, 2012).…”

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“…For example, a virtual environment called "Learning Island" and developed in Second Life, was created to host an interactive course on stress management (Riva et al, 2012). Also, a virtual reality-based psychoeducational tool for individuals suffering from depression called "VRight" has been shown to increase depressive symptoms awareness (Migoya-Borja et al, 2020). Within this context, MIND-VR's main goal is to develop an immersive experience offering psychoeducation on stress and anxiety.…”

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MIND-VR: Design and Evaluation Protocol of a Virtual Reality Psychoeducational Experience on Stress and Anxiety for the Psychological Support of Healthcare Workers Involved in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Pallavicini

Orena

Santo

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Front. Virtual Real.

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To ensure the continuity of healthcare and to counter the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors and nursing staff at hospitals must face an insidious, invisible danger that is stretching the healthcare system far past its capacity. Excessive workload, inadequate protection from contamination, the need to manage patients experiencing extreme suffering and being kept apart from their families put medical personnel at high risk to experience stress and anxiety. Numerous scientific studies have shown that, among various therapeutic programs, virtual reality represents a highly specialized and effective tool for the prevention and treatment of stress and anxiety. However, the solutions developed using this technology for the management of stress and anxiety induced by the COVID-19 pandemic are still very limited, and none of these have been developed specifically for use with healthcare professionals. Therefore, this paper will detail the design and evaluation protocol of MIND-VR, a virtual reality-based psychoeducational experience on stress and anxiety developed following a user-centered design approach. The virtual experience will be tested on a sample of Italian hospital healthcare personnel involved in the COVID-19 pandemic emergency. MIND-VR is available free of charge, both in Italian and English, on the project website (https://mind-vr.com/).

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“…A recent survey study on attitudes towards VR among practicing CBT clinicians found that those who worked clinically with neuropsychiatric disorders, personality disorders, and psychosomatic disorders were more inclined to report that VR could be used with the respective disorder (Lindner et al 2019d), suggesting that novel clinical applications of VR are indeed possible. The VR field is currently expanding rapidly, including new research on innovative VR treatments for disorders that have previously received little attention like depression (Migoya-Borja et al 2020;Schleider et al 2019), sleep problems (Lee and Kang 2020), and worry (Guitard et al 2019). Recent work has also studied how VR can be used for modifying cognitions (Silviu Matu 2019) and feared self-perceptions (Wong 2019), in approach-avoidance training for obesity (Kakoschke 2019), and to treat aggressive behavior in children (Alsem 2019), revealing how VR has matured into a flexible, innovative treatment tool.…”

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Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Lindner

2020

J Cogn Ther

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Virtual reality (VR) is an immersive technology capable of creating a powerful, perceptual illusion of being present in a virtual environment. VR technology has been used in cognitive behavior therapy since the 1990s and accumulated an impressive evidence base, yet with the recent release of consumer VR platforms came a true paradigm shift in the capabilities and scalability of VR for mental health. This narrative review summarizes the past, present, and future of the field, including milestone studies and discussions on the clinical potential of alternative embodiment, gamification, avatar therapists, virtual gatherings, immersive storytelling, and more. Although the future is hard to predict, clinical VR has and will continue to be inherently intertwined with what are now rapid developments in technology, presenting both challenges and exciting opportunities to do what is not possible in the real world.

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Feasibility of a Virtual Reality-Based Psychoeducational Tool (VRight) for Depressive Patients

Cited by 27 publications

References 34 publications

Extended Reality for Enhanced Telehealth During and Beyond COVID-19: Viewpoint

Extended Reality for Enhanced Telehealth During and Beyond COVID-19: Viewpoint

MIND-VR: Design and Evaluation Protocol of a Virtual Reality Psychoeducational Experience on Stress and Anxiety for the Psychological Support of Healthcare Workers Involved in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Better, Virtually: the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy

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