Virtual-Reality Videos to Relieve Depression

Hussain, Syed Ali; Park, Taiwoo; Yildirim, Irem; Xiang, Zihan; Abbasi, Farha

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“…Dedicated devices were used to record 360° videos: Samsung 360-degree cameras equipped with bright f2.0 Lens (Appel et al, 2020;Ashmore et al, 2019), VUZE 360 stereoscopic camera (Evans et al, 2020), GoPro Fusion 360° camera (Coelho et al, 2020), or SP 360° 4K VR Cameras mounted on a tripod (Reeves et al, 2021), and the created videos were post-processed using the package iMovie v10.1.2 (Apple Inc, Ashmore et al, 2019). Different equipment was employed across the interventions, to facilitate the delivery of the immersive experience for the participants: Samsung Gear VR headsets (Appel et al, 2020, Ashmore et al, 201,9 Lindner et al, 2019Tabbaa et al, 2019;Reeves et al, 2021;Veling et al, 2021), Z4 mini-headset (BoboVR; Ashmore et al, 2019;Holmberg et al, 2020), Oculus Go headset (Evans et al, 2020), Oculus Rift VR headset with or without integrated audio system (Hussain, 2018;Coelho et al, 2020;Malihi et al, 2020), Limbix VR headset (Paul et al, 2020), Google Cardboard headset (Ashmore et al, 2019;Lindner et al, 2019), Sennheiser HD 221 headphones to render the sound and to reduce the surrounding acoustic 3 Lundström and Fernaeus (2019) environment (Appel et al, 2020;Veling et al, 2021), and a dictaphone to interview the participants.…”

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“…Interactive activities can be designed by creating appropriate content (e.g., real audience recordings for public speaking exercises, or footages with sharings of personal experiences of depression to stimulate participants' disclosure) and the use of props to enhance a more natural 1st person experience (e.g., using a real podium to step on, when the participant speaks in front of a virtual audience). The choice can nevertheless still be made for more expensive high-end systems, which for example have the added advantage to be easily supplemented with additional features, such as eye-tracking (Rubin et al, 2020) or voice recording (Hussain, 2018;Tabbaa et al, 2019).…”

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360° Videos for Immersive Mental Health Interventions: a Systematic Review

Ionescu¹,

Daele

Rizzo

et al. 2021

J. technol. behav. sci.

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Virtual reality is increasingly recognized as a powerful method for clinical interventions in the mental health field, but has yet to achieve mainstream adoption in routine mental healthcare settings. A similar, yet slightly different technology, immersive 360° videos might have the potential to cover this gap, by requiring both lower costs and less technical skills to construct and operate such virtual environments. This systematic review therefore aims to identify, evaluate, and summarize mental health interventions using immersive 360° videos to support an understanding of their implementation in daily clinical practice. The quality of the 14 selected studies was evaluated using a critical appraisal tool, addressing populations with clinical levels of psychopathological symptoms, somatic conditions associated with psychological implications, and other at-risk groups. Immersive 360° videos successfully increased users’ feelings of presence, given their realistic features, and therefore yielded positive outcomes in clinical interventions where presence is considered as an essential precondition. Because the technical skills required to create immersive 360° video footage are fairly limited, most of the interventions using this approach have been created by mental health researchers or clinicians themselves. Immersive 360° videos are still in an early phase of implementation as a tool for clinical interventions for mental health, resulting in high heterogeneity in focus, procedures, and research designs. An important next step for making use of this technology may therefore involve the creation of standardized procedures, as a means to increase the quality of research and evidence-based interventions.

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360° Videos for Immersive Mental Health Interventions: a Systematic Review

Ionescu¹,

Daele

Rizzo

et al. 2021

J. technol. behav. sci.

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“…The prospects of VR as a storytelling medium for varying purposes increase dramatically each year as the ability to guide the experience during immersion increases the effect of the presence that the medium has on the person experiencing it [126,127]. When this is applied to the treatment of disorders such as PTSD and similar mental health issues, it offers many benefits to the therapy such as the dissolution of barriers such as stigma or cost [128,129]. The serious games application of VR offers various scenarios and generates scenery according to the advancing exposure [130].…”

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Reconstructing Personal Stories in Virtual Reality as a Mechanism to Recover the Self

Georgieva

Georgiev

2019

IJERPH

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Advances in virtual reality present opportunities to relive experiences in an immersive medium that can change the way we perceive our life stories, potentially shaping our realities for the better. This paper studies the role of virtual reality as a tool for the creation of stories with the concept of the self as a narrator and the life of the self as a storyline. The basis of the study is the philosophical notion of the self-narrative as an explanatory story of the events in one’s life that constitutes the notion of one’s self. This application is suitable for cases when individuals need to recreate their self, such as during recovery after traumatic events. The analysis of the effects of virtual reality shows that it enables a person to engage in a process of deeper self-observation to understand and explain adverse events and to give meaning to these events to form a new story, which can complement the therapeutic outcomes of exposure treatments. This study proposes concrete examples of immersive scenarios used to reconstruct personal stories. Several possible levels of experience are proposed to suggest that recovery can be achieved through the gradual retelling of the self-narrative, addressing all of the underlying narratives. Considering the ethical challenges that might arise, this paper explores the ways in which immersion in virtual reality can benefit a person’s view toward life as a story and his or her self as its author, comparing this idea with previous research on the application of virtual reality for trauma treatment. The analysis also emphasizes the perception of narrative authorship in virtual reality as an essential method for recovering the self-narrative and improving a patient’s mental health during self-actualization.

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“…For example, 360° LA-VR video technology is used for surgical planning; a surgeon visualizes the patient's anatomy and plans the surgical approach (12,14). Threedimensional (3D) technology more accurately represents anatomy than 2D approaches, and 360° LA-VR video technology is being used to explore the effects of VR exposure therapy in patients with anxiety and other mental health conditions (6,10,15,16,17). Patients experience virtual environments that simulate real-world scenarios, which helps them confront their fears (7,10,15) and reduces anxiety (7,17,18).…”

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Comparing the Effectiveness of 360-Degree Live-Action VR and 2D Video for Initial Medical Examinations by Medical Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial

2024

Jap J Med VR

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Context: Despite numerous reports on using 360° live-action virtual reality (VR) videos for medical education, there is little evidence that they are superior to 2D videos.Objective: We compared the impact and effectiveness of a 360° live-action VR (LA-VR) video and a two-dimensional (2D) video for training students in how to conduct initial medical interviews Study design, setting, and participants: This prospective, single-center, single-blinded, parallel-group randomized controlled trial enrolled 46 students and was conducted in a therapist school in November 2022. Intervention: The intervention was a 7 min 30 s 360° LA-VR video.Main outcome measures: The primary outcomes were the perceived extent of presence (immersion), emotional understanding, concentration, and self-understanding. Student comprehension was evaluated in five respects: verbal communication, non-verbal communication, empathy for the patient, awareness of his/her own position, and careful consideration assumed by the therapists. Both primary and secondary outcomes were assessed using items scored on a Likert scale (range: 0-10).Results: The 360° LA-VR group reported greater presence (p < 0.001), better understanding of patient emotions (p = 0.004), and stronger appreciation of the need for self-judgment (p = 0.04) than the 2D group. Concentration did not differ significantly between the groups (p = 0.100). Of the five comprehension items, the 360° LA-VR group scored significantly higher only in terms of nonverbal communication (p = 0.047). Conclusion: Our findings suggest that 360° LA-VR videos promote presence to a greater degree than 2D videos and increase students' understanding of patients' emotional state, especially non-verbal communication.

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Virtual-Reality Videos to Relieve Depression

Cited by 9 publications

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360° Videos for Immersive Mental Health Interventions: a Systematic Review

360° Videos for Immersive Mental Health Interventions: a Systematic Review

Reconstructing Personal Stories in Virtual Reality as a Mechanism to Recover the Self

Comparing the Effectiveness of 360-Degree Live-Action VR and 2D Video for Initial Medical Examinations by Medical Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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