Using virtual reality to improve the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in the treatment of late-life anxiety: preliminary recommendations for future research

Grenier, Sébastien; Forget, Hélène; Bouchard, Stéphane; Isere, Sébastien; Belleville, Sylvie; Potvin, Olivier; Rioux, Marie‐Ève; Talbot, Mélissa

doi:10.1017/s1041610214002300

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“…Users are generally more motivated to participate in a virtual environment, which can be instantly adjusted to differing levels of challenge, accommodating varying amounts of cognitive ability (Shin and Kim, 2015). VR can safely provide answers to inaccessible and intangible concepts that would otherwise be considered too dangerous or unethical to perform in real life (Grenier et al, 2015). It is a safe, ethical and repeatable system that produces objective measures of performance while providing real-time feedback to users (Alaker et al, 2016).…”

Section: Incentives For Adopting Immersive Vr Into Post-secondary Edumentioning

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Head-Mounted Display Virtual Reality in Post-secondary Education and Skill Training

2019

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Background: This review focused on how immersive head-mounted display virtual reality (VR) was used in post-secondary level education and skill training, with the aim to better understand its state of the art as found from the literature. While numerous studies describe the use of immersive VR within a specific educational setting, they are often standalone events not fully detailed regarding their curricular integration. This review aims to analyse these events, with a focus on immersive VR's incorporation into post-secondary education.Objectives: (O1) Review the existing literature on the use of immersive VR in post-secondary settings, determining where and how it has been used within each educational discipline. This criterion focused on literature featuring the use of immersive VR, due to its influence on a user's perceived levels of presence and imagination. (O2) Identify favorable outcomes from the use of immersive VR when it is compared to other learning methods. (O3) Determine the conceptual rationale (purpose) for each implementation of immersive VR as found throughout the literature. (O4) Identify learning theories and recommendations for the utilization of immersive VR in post-secondary education.Methods: A literature review was undertaken with searches of Education Research Complete, ERIC, MEDLINE, EMBASE, IEEE Xplore, Scopus, and Web of Science: Core Collection to locate reports on the use of immersive VR in post-secondary curricula.Results: One hundred and nineteen articles were identified, featuring disciplines across Arts and Humanities, Health Sciences, Military and Aerospace, Science and Technology. Thirty five out of 38 experiments reported to have found a positive outcome for immersive VR, after being compared with a non-immersive platform. Each simulation's purpose included one or more of the following designations: skill training, convenience, engagement, safety, highlighting, interactivity, team building, and suggestion. Recommendations for immersive VR in post-secondary education emphasize experiential learning and social constructivist approaches, including student-created virtual environments that are mainly led by the students themselves under team collaboration.Concannon et al. Immersive VR in Post-secondary EducationConclusion: Immersive VR brings convenient, engaging, and interactive alternatives to traditional classroom settings as well as offers additional capability over traditional methods. There is a diverse assortment of educational disciplines that have each attempted to harness the power of this technological medium.

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Section: Incentives For Adopting Immersive Vr Into Post-secondary Edumentioning

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Head-Mounted Display Virtual Reality in Post-secondary Education and Skill Training

2019

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“…Lastly, depression, anxiety disorder, and dementia are the most prevalent psychological problems in older adults [10]. It is dismaying that 21% of older adults report experiencing symptoms of anxiety that contribute to significant distress, lower quality of life, and a higher chance of having depression [11]. Thus, it is important to develop and implement effective intervention strategies that can prevent or reverse these adverse health outcomes in order to improve older adults' quality of life.…”

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Virtual Reality Exercise as a Coping Strategy for Health and Wellness Promotion in Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Gao

Lee

McDonough

et al. 2020

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122

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The December 2019 COVID-19 outbreak in China has led to worldwide quarantine, as recommended by local governments and the World Health Organization. Particularly affected are older adults (i.e., those aged ≥ 65 years) who are at elevated risk for various adverse health outcomes, including declines in motor ability and physical activity (PA) participation, increased obesity, impaired cognition, and various psychological disorders. Thus, given the secular increases in the older adult population, novel and effective intervention strategies are necessary to improve physical activity behaviors and health in this population. Virtual reality (VR)-integrated exercise is a promising intervention strategy, which has been utilized in healthcare fields like stroke rehabilitation and psychotherapy. Therefore, the purpose of this editorial is to synthesize recent research examining the efficacy and effectiveness of VR exercise in the promotion of favorable health outcomes among the older adults. Results indicate the application of VR exercise to facilitate improved physical outcomes (e.g., enhanced motor ability, reduced obesity), cognition and psychological outcomes. VR exercise has also been observed to be an effective intervention strategy for fall prevention in this population. Future research should employ more rigorous research designs to allow for a more robust quantitative synthesis of the effect of VR exercise on the preceding outcomes to elucidate which type(s) of VR-based PA interventions are most effective in promoting improved health outcomes among older adults. Findings from this study will better inform the development of technology-savvy PA programs for wellness promotion in older adults who practice social distancing and exercise from home under the unprecedented global health crisis.

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“…Despite the fact, people suffering from phobias experience intensive psychic symptoms (anxiety, loss of control, fear) and vegetative symptoms (increased heartbeat, fainting, sweating, problems with breathing). The content of phobias has a compulsive characteristic -concern that the feared object could also occur outside the real time and place which might lead to anticipated fear and evasive behaviour [24,25]. Generally, phobias could be divided into three main categories: agoraphobias, social phobias, and specific phobias [26].…”

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Creating virtual environments for phobia treatment

Horváthová

Siladi

2016

Open Computer Science

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Abstract:In this paper, we try to present the problems of the modern approach to treating various phobias. Virtual environments created by virtual reality (VR) tools can help to make the treatment of certain types of phobias more efficient. Attention to this form of phobia treatment with the help of VR is on the rise in the world, so we are also monitoring its development, as well. Our paper introduces the necessary hardware and software that has been piloted in our department, but also methods of creating virtual environments, models and application designed for medical therapies of patients. In our work we have searched for and tested the following methods for creating virtual environments: A) modelling using computer graphics, B) modelling animation using animation programs, C) taking pictures of static objects and scenes, D) filming moving objects and scenes using classic video or special scanning techniques to create 360 ∘ panoramas or E) any combination of these methods.

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Using virtual reality to improve the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) in the treatment of late-life anxiety: preliminary recommendations for future research

Cited by 34 publications

References 67 publications

Head-Mounted Display Virtual Reality in Post-secondary Education and Skill Training

Head-Mounted Display Virtual Reality in Post-secondary Education and Skill Training

Virtual Reality Exercise as a Coping Strategy for Health and Wellness Promotion in Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Creating virtual environments for phobia treatment

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