ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021
Can Intergroup Contact in Virtual Reality (VR) Reduce Stigmatization Against People with Schizophrenia?
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- The use of virtual reality in studying prejudice and its reduction: A systematic review.PloS one · 2022Pooled it
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- Implementation of a psychiatric nursing boot camp to improve the empathy and stigma toward psychiatric patients in nursing students.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Telerobotic Intergroup Contact: Acceptance and Preferences in Israel and Palestine.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of Augmented and Virtual Reality-Based Interventions in Improving Knowledge, Attitudes, Empathy and Stigma Regarding People with Mental Illnesses-A Scoping Review.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Media Coverage of Pedophilia and Its Impact on Help-Seeking Persons with Pedophilia in Germany-A Focus Group Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Innovative Technology-Based Interventions to Reduce Stigma Toward People With Mental Illness: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JMIR serious games · 2022Review
- Effect of a Virtual Reality Contact-Based Educational Intervention on the Public Stigma of Depression: Randomized Controlled Pilot Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Disrupting the "empathy machine": The power and perils of virtual reality in addressing social issues.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Investigating the Influence of Intergroup Contact in Virtual Reality on Empathy: An Exploratory Study Using AltspaceVR.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
People with mental disorders such as schizophrenia do not only suffer from the symptoms of their disorders but also from the stigma attached to it. Although direct intergroup contact is an effective tool to reduce stigmatization, it is rare in real life and costly to be established in interventions, and the success of traditional media campaigns is debatable. We propose Virtual Reality (VR) as a low-threshold alternative for establishing contact since it involves less barriers for affected and unaffected persons. In a 2 + 1 experiment (
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