在虚拟环境中进行尬的社交互动,旨在为患有普遍社会焦虑症的人提供基于暴露的心理治疗:一项国际多站点研究
Pamela Quintana1, Stéphane Bouchard1,2, Cristina Botella3,4
1Département de Psychoéducation et de Psychologie, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, QC J8X 3X7, Canada.
Journal of clinical medicine
|July 14, 2023
概括
虚拟现实曝光疗法有效诱导一般化社会焦虑障碍 (SAD) 的成年人的焦虑. 这种虚拟环境方法对SAD治疗具有前景,SAD组的副作用较高.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 虚拟现实 虚拟现实 虚拟现实
- 临床心理学 临床心理学
背景情况:
- 虚拟现实 (VR) 暴露疗法对仅表现性社会焦虑障碍 (SAD) 有效.
- 有限的研究证实了VR环境对通用SAD的有效性.
- 这项研究调查了VR在普遍的SAD中诱导焦虑的潜力.
研究的目的:
- 确认VR在患有一般性SAD的成年人中诱导焦虑的潜力.
- 为了在VR中比较患有和没有SAD的个体之间的焦虑反应.
- 探索对SAD的VR体验的跨文化差异.
主要方法:
- 参与者:15个SAD (加拿大),17个非SAD (加拿大),16个SAD (西班牙),21个非SAD (西班牙).
- 沉浸式VR:控制环境和令人焦虑的实验环境.
- 措施:焦虑程度,空间存在,生态有效性,副作用.
主要成果:
- 与非SAD组相比,实验VR环境在SAD组显著增加了焦虑.
- 在VR中,社会威胁的任务是统计学上显著的焦虑触发因素.
- 加拿大和西班牙参与者之间的焦虑反应没有显著差异.
- 加拿大人报告的更高的空间存在和生态有效性.
- 在VR沉浸期间,在SAD组观察到的负面副作用增加.
结论:
- 虚拟现实环境可以有效地诱导一般性SAD患者的焦虑.
- 虚拟现实心理治疗应用应包含对SAD患者临床相关的任务.
- 治疗师可以利用VR来治疗一般性SAD,考虑潜在的副作用.
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