检查一家基于远程医疗的虚拟现实诊所,治疗患有特定恐惧症的成年人:可行性随机对照有效性试验的协议
Kaitlyn R Schuler1, Triton Ong2, Brandon M Welch3,4
1Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States.
JMIR research protocols
|April 10, 2025
概括
这项研究测试了一种新的虚拟现实 (VR) 应用程序,用于治疗动物恐惧症. 可行性试验显示了VR增强TMH的前景,为更大的疗效研究铺平了道路.
科学领域:
- 心理健康 心理健康
- 数字健康数字健康
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
背景情况:
- 虚拟现实 (VR) 为改善远程医疗保健 (TMH) 的可访问性和个性化提供了巨大的潜力.
- 现有的对TMH的VR研究是初步的,许多当前的VR应用程序并不是为心理健康治疗而设计的.
- 这项研究引入了一款基于远程医疗的新型VR应用程序 (Doxy.me VR),用于曝光疗法.
研究的目的:
- 评估基于远程医疗的VR曝光疗法的大规模随机对照试验的可行性.
- 预先检查临床结果,包括减少特定恐惧症症状.
- 为了比较一种新的VR增强TMH方法与特定恐惧症的标准TMH.
主要方法:
- 一项可行性随机对照试验,涉及54名对狗,蛇或蜘蛛有强烈恐惧的成年人.
- 参与者被随机分配到基于远程医疗的VR诊所或标准的TMH.
- 评估包括恐惧症症状,焦虑,抑郁,治疗联盟和存在,通过REDCap.Cap进行部分自动化.
主要成果:
- 注册,保留和评估完成数据将决定更大的试验的可行性.
- 初步分析将检查恐惧症,焦虑症和抑郁症症状的群体间差异.
- 数据分析计划在2025年第二季度结束前完成,以便为未来的疗效试验提供功率计算的信息.
结论:
- 这项可行性试验为增强通过远程医疗提供的基于证据的治疗提供了基础.
- 这项研究旨在减少对恐惧症远程暴露治疗的障碍.
- 计划对动物恐惧症进行基于远程医疗的VR进行全功率的疗效试验.
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