An Adaptive Virtual Reality System for the Treatment of Adjustment Disorder and Complicated Grief: 1-year Follow-up Efficacy data.

This study aims to offer long-term efficacy data from a between-groups controlled study that compares two treatment conditions (AD-protocol applied in a traditional way: N= 18; and the same protocol supported by virtual reality-VR-: N =18) and a waiting list (WL) control group (N =18). Both treatment conditions resulted in statistically significant improvements on both primary and secondary outcome measures, with large effect sizes, and this improvement did not occur in the WL. These changes were maintained in both treatment conditions in the medium (6-month) and long term (12-month follow-up). Larger effect sizes were achieved in the VR condition in the long term. Furthermore, clinically significant change estimations on the primary outcome measures showed an advantage for the VR condition This is the first controlled study to compare a traditional face-to-face protocol for the treatment of stress-related disorders to the same protocol supported by VR and a WL control group. PMID: 30328216 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Clin Psychol Psychother Source Type: research