Affective outcomes of virtual reality exposure therapy for anxiety and specific phobias: a meta-analysis.

By Thomas D. Parsons, Albert A. Rizzo. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction

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The use of virtual reality technology in the treatment of anxiety and other psychiatric disorders (2017, result): “…treatment research has been conducted for anxiety disorders, and broadly, results suggest the VRE is related to large declines in anxiety symptoms, 12 demonstrates similar efficacy compared to traditional exposure interventions, has a powerful real-life impact, and demonstrates good stability of…”
Transforming Experience: The Potential of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for Enhancing Personal and Clinical Change (2016, background): “…the highest number of papers – four meta-analyses and seven systematic reviews – is related to the use of VR in the treatment of emotion-related disorders: anxiety disorders (four meta-analyses and three systematic reviews) (66, 74–79) and stress-related disorders (four systematic reviews) (80–83).”
Cognitive-behavioral theory (2012, background): “There are a number of studies that assert the effectiveness of VRE for treatment of anxiety disorders other than PTSD (North et al., 1998; Parsons & Rizzo, 2008; Power & Emmelkamp, 2008).”
Virtual Reality for Enhanced Ecological Validity and Experimental Control in the Clinical, Affective and Social Neurosciences (2015, methodology): “…example, in the clinical neurosciences virtual environment-based neuropsychological assessments allow for real-time assessment of a participants cognitive and affective processing in a manner that more closely resemble real-world functional abilities (Matheis et al., 2007; Parsons and Rizzo, 2008).”
Assessing Knowledge Retention of an Immersive Serious Game vs. a Traditional Education Method in Aviation Safety (2015, background): “Immersive VR has been indeed shown to be effective to treat anxiety and phobias through prolonged exposure to virtual versions of the feared situations (VRET, Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy), see [54] for a systematic review and [55] for a meta-analysis of VRET studies.”
Impact assessment of reinforced learning methods on construction workers' fall risk behavior using virtual reality (2019, background): “For example, VRET has been found to be more helpful in studying post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [23,84], anxiety [75], social anxiety [1], acrophobia [71], and other cognitive and psychological questions.”
Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders (2014, background): “Exposure-based treatments All specific phobias [57,311,312]”