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SynthesisSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Effectiveness of Virtual Reality for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Evidence-Based Systematic Review.

Patricia Mesa-Gresa, Hermenegildo Gil-Gómez, José-Antonio Lozano-Quilis, José-Antonio Gil-Gómez

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07594171 (Comparative Outcomes of VR and In-person NDBI-informed Social Skills Interventions for Preschool-aged Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder), which is not on this map. Cited by 92 papers, 14 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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92citing papers in PubMed, 14 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07594171 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Comparative Outcomes of VR and In-person NDBI-informed Social Skills Interventions for Preschool-aged Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

TypeinterventionalSponsorNational Cheng-Kung University HospitalRan2023 to 2025Enrolled32ConditionsAutism Spectrum Disorder High-Functioning, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)ArmsVirtual Reality-Based Social Skills Group Intervention, In-Person Social Skills Group Intervention
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

92 citing papers in PubMed, 14 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  12. Virtual Reality as a Promising Tool Supporting Oncological Treatment in Breast Cancer.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  14. Neuroscience of Virtual Reality: From Virtual Exposure to Embodied Medicine.Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking · 2019
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32 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Patricia Mesa-GresaDepartamento de Psicobiología, Facultad de Psicología, Universitat de València, Blasco Ibáñez 21, 46010 Valencia, Spain. patricia.mesa@uv.es.
Hermenegildo Gil-GómezInstituto Universitario de Automática e Informática Industrial, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain. hgil@ai2.upv.es.
José-Antonio Lozano-QuilisInstituto Universitario de Automática e Informática Industrial, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain. jlozano@upv.es.
José-Antonio Gil-GómezInstituto Universitario de Automática e Informática Industrial, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain. jgil@upv.es.ORCID 0000-0001-9954-2480

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disease that is specially characterized by impairments in social communication and social skills. ASD has a high prevalence in children, affecting 1 in 160 subjects. Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as an effective tool for intervention in the health field. Different recent papers have reviewed the VR-based treatments in ASD, but they have an important limitation because they only use clinical databases and do not include important technical indexes such as the Web of Science index or the Scimago Journal & Country Rank. To our knowledge, this is the first contribution that has carried out an evidence-based systematic review including both clinical and technical databases about the effectiveness of VR-based intervention in ASD. The initial search identified a total of 450 records. After the exclusion of the papers that are not studies, duplicated articles, and the screening of the abstract and full text, 31 articles met the PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison and Outcomes) criteria and were selected for analysis. The studies examined suggest moderate evidence about the effectiveness of VR-based treatments in ASD. VR can add many advantages to the treatment of ASD symptomatology, but it is necessary to develop consistent validations in future studies to state that VR can effectively complement the traditional treatments.

Indexed as

Virtual RealityAdolescentAutism Spectrum DisorderChildCommunicationHumansInterpersonal RelationsASDAspergeraugmented realityAutism Spectrum Disordervirtual reality

Identifiers

PMID30071588
PMCPMC6111797

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