SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2022
Use of Virtual Reality in Psychiatric Diagnostic Assessments: A Systematic Review.
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- Avatars in Mental Health: Psychotherapists' Attitudes Towards Avatar Technology and Factors Influencing Adoption.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- A Virtual Reality-Based Multimodal Approach to Diagnosing Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia Using Physiological Measures: A Machine Learning Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A pilot study on treatment content in virtual reality-assisted aggression therapy at a maximum-security forensic psychiatric clinic.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Acceptability, Usability, and Insights Into Cybersickness Levels of a Novel Virtual Reality Environment for the Evaluation of Depressive Symptoms: Exploratory Observational Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Observational
- Simulated virtual reality experiences for predicting early treatment response in panic disorder.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Study protocol for the EYEdentify project: An examination of gaze behaviour in autistic adults using a virtual reality-based paradigm.PloS one · 2025Article
- VR-assisted aggression treatment in forensic psychiatry: a qualitative study in patients with severe mental disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Examination of gaze behaviour in social anxiety disorder using a virtual reality eye-tracking paradigm: protocol for a caseBMJ open · 2023Article
- Application of Immersive Virtual Reality for Assessment and Intervention in Psychosis: A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Virtual reality-assisted assessment of paranoid ideation in forensic psychiatric inpatients: A mixed-methods pilot study.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Technological developments such as Virtual reality (VR) provide new opportunities to extend and innovate mental healthcare. VR as a tool for clinical assessment has been described as promising, as it can enable real-time assessment within real-like environments or contexts as opposed to self-report and behavioral tasks in laboratory settings. Objective: With this systematic review we aimed to provide an overview of recent studies using VR in the assessment of psychiatric disorders. Methods: A systematic search was performed using Pubmed, Embase, PsycInfo, and Web of Science between 2016 and 2020. Studies were included if they used immersive VR, concerned assessment of psychiatric symptoms/disorders, and included adult patients with psychiatric disorders. Results: The search resulted in 3,163 potentially eligible articles, from which a total of 27 studies fulfilled inclusion criteria. Most studies considered anxiety ( Discussion: Recent studies on VR-assisted psychiatric assessments have been conducted to validate VR environments, to assess symptoms for diagnostics or therapy goals, search for biomarkers, and to gain knowledge on psychiatric disorders. VR tasks were able to detect some difference between patient and healthy control groups, mainly with regard to self-report measures. Despite previous, promising prospects, the use of VR as a tool in clinical assessments must still be considered as a field in need of continued developments and evaluations. Systematic Review Registration: www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero, identifier: CRD42021233772.
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