ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020
Validity of Virtual Reality Body Exposure to Elicit Fear of Gaining Weight, Body Anxiety and Body-Related Attentional Bias in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa.
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- Use of Virtual Reality in Psychiatric Diagnostic Assessments: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Virtual reality interventions in obesity and eating disorders: a systematic review of biomarker, clinical, and behavioral outcomes.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- Food and body-related attentional biases in children and adolescents with eating disorder symptoms, overweight and obesity: a systematic review.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Review
- Anxiety matters: a pilot lab study into food, weight, and virtual body exposure in anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Harnessing Immersive Virtual Reality: A Comprehensive Scoping Review of its Applications in Assessing, Understanding, and Treating Eating Disorders.Current psychiatry reports · 2024Article
- The multisensory mind: a systematic review of multisensory integration processing in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- Body Dissatisfaction and Body-Related Attentional Bias: Is There a Causal Relationship?Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Inhibitory Learning during Exposure Treatment in Anorexia Nervosa: A Practical Guide.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- An Attentional Bias Modification Task, through Virtual Reality and Eye-Tracking Technologies, to Enhance the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Various Types of Virtual Reality-Based Therapy for Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Mirror, mirror, on the wall: During pandemics, how can self-perception research in people with eating disorders happen at all?Journal of eating disorders · 2022Review
- AN-VR-BE. A Randomized Controlled Trial for Reducing Fear of Gaining Weight and Other Eating Disorder Symptoms in Anorexia Nervosa through Virtual Reality-Based Body Exposure.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Advances in Eating Disorders.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Virtual Reality Body Exposure and Attentional Bias Modification in the Treatment of Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyArticle
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Abstract
Fear of gaining weight (FGW), body image disturbances, associated anxiety and body-related attentional bias are the core symptoms of anorexia nervosa (AN) and play critical roles in its development and maintenance. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the usefulness of virtual reality-based body exposure software for the assessment of important body-related cognitive and emotional responses in AN. Thirty female patients with AN, one of them subclinical, and 43 healthy college women, 25 with low body dissatisfaction (BD) and 18 with high BD, owned a virtual body that had their silhouette and body mass index. Full-body illusion (FBI) over the virtual body was induced using both visuo-motor and visuo-tactile stimulation. Once the FBI was induced, the FBI itself, FGW, body anxiety and body-related attentional bias toward weight-related and non-weight-related body areas were assessed. One-way analyses of covariance (ANCOVA), controlling for age, showed that AN patients reported higher FGW, body anxiety and body-related attentional bias than healthy controls. Unexpectedly, patients with AN reported significantly lower FBI levels than healthy participants. Finally, Pearson correlations showed significant relationships between visual analog scales and body-related attentional bias measures, compared to other eating disorder measures. These results provide evidence about the usefulness of virtual reality-based body exposure to elicit FGW and other body-related disturbances in AN patients. Thus, it may be a suitable intervention for reducing these emotional responses and for easing weight recovery.
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