SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2021
The Effect of Virtual Reality on Emotional Response and Symptoms Provocation in Patients With OCD: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- Virtual Exposure With Response Prevention for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Trial
- Virtual Reality-Delivered Exposure for Contamination Concerns in Adults With Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: Single-Arm Pilot Study.JMIR serious games · 2026Article
- Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder via Mental Health Technology.The Psychiatric clinics of North America · 2026Review
- Digital Psychiatry with Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality: Recent Advances and Limitations.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Virtual reality based attentional bias modification training for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: a feasibility study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- From innovation to implementation: a case report on virtual reality for chronic pain and psychological well-being in clinical practice.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Use of Virtual Reality (VR)-Based Relaxation Among Female Patients with Mental Disorders: A Pilot Study.Reports (MDPI) · 2025Article
- Experiences of imagery in obsessive-compulsive disorder: An interpretative phenomenological analysis.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2025Article
- Impact of Cognitive VR vs. Traditional Training on Emotional Self-Efficacy and Cognitive Function in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: A Retrospective Study Focusing on Gender Differences.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Current virtual reality-based rehabilitation interventions in neuro-developmental disorders at developmental ages.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Review
- Brain Activation During Virtual Reality Symptom Provocation in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Proof-of-Concept Study.JMIR XR and spatial computing · 2024Article
- Efficacy of exposure and response prevention therapy in mixed reality for patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- 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
- Toward personalized circuit-based closed-loop brain-interventions in psychiatry: using symptom provocation to extract EEG-markers of brain circuit activity.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2023Review
- Design and validation of virtual environments for the treatment of cleaning obsessive-compulsive disorder.Heliyon · 2022Review
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Abstract
This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR)-based technology on emotional response and symptoms in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We systematically searched major electronic databases, including PubMed/Medline, Scopus, Embase, ISI Web of Science, PsycINFO, and Cochrane central, up to April 14, 2021, with no data or language limits. We performed reference, related articles, and citation searches to find additional articles. We included original articles comparing and studying VR-based technology in patients with OCD against the control group. We observed that VR significantly increases in anxiety (SMD = 2.92; 95% CI 1.89-3.94,
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