作为治疗社会焦虑症状的独立虚拟现实暴露疗法:系统性审查和元分析
Christian Rejbrand1, Brynjar Fure1,2, Karin Sonnby2,3
1Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Medical Sciences, Campus USÖ, Örebro, Sweden.
Upsala journal of medical sciences
|October 9, 2023
概括
虚拟现实曝光疗法 (VRET) 在减少社会焦虑症状方面显示出有前途. 然而,由于研究数量有限和偏差风险高,需要更多的研究.
科学领域:
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 人与计算机的交互
背景情况:
- 社会焦虑障碍 (SAD) 很普遍,影响社会和职业功能.
- 虚拟现实曝光疗法 (VRET) 是一种新兴的SAD治疗方法.
- 本综述评估了VRET作为社会焦虑的独立治疗方法的有效性.
研究的目的:
- 系统地审查和评估独立VRET在减少社会焦虑症状方面的有效性.
主要方法:
- 在2022年5月对PubMed,Embase,PsycINFO和ERIC数据库进行系统搜索.
- 由两位审查员独立选择的研究,并进行偏差风险评估.
- 来自5项选定的研究数据的元分析.
主要成果:
- 与对照组相比,VRET显著降低了社会焦虑症状 (SMD = -0.82,95% CI [-1.52, -0.13]).
- 在分析中包括了五项研究.
- 总共有158个初始搜索结果被选.
结论:
- 独立VRET似乎是一种有效的方法来减少社会焦虑.
- 目前的证据仅限于少数研究和参与者.
- 在包含的研究中存在高偏差风险,需要谨慎地解释研究结果.
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