ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2022
Virtual-reality-based social cognition and interaction training for patients with schizophrenia: A preliminary efficacy study.
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- AI-powered cognitive remediation for schizophrenia: a psychologist's lens on evidence and scalability in India.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Emotion Processing and Its Relationship to Social Functioning and Symptoms in Psychotic Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Pooled it
- Social Functioning Interventions in Psychosis: A Systematic Review.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyPooled it
- Do virtual reality-based therapies affect symptomatology and psychosocial functioning in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: systematic review and meta-analysis.BJPsych open · 2026Review
- Differential impacts of audiovisual information on empathic accuracy in people with schizophrenia and high social anhedonia.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- From facing fears to experimental frontiers: immersive cinematic virtual reality environments as a catalyst for innovation in behavioral neuroscience.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- [Digital interventions for psychoses: current opportunities and challenges].Der Nervenarzt · 2025Review
- Treatment of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia using a new technique of Cognitive Training in Virtual Reality: a pilot study.Health psychology research · 2025Article
- Digital therapeutics for cognitive impairments associated with schizophrenia: our opinion.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Efficacy of social cognition and interaction training in outpatients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Beyond memory: exploring the value of social cognition for older adults with neurocognitive disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Social cognition and interaction training (SCIT) is a psychosocial intervention program for patients with psychosis, designed to improve their social functioning by improving social cognition. Although the feasibility and efficacy of SCIT have been verified, patients with schizophrenia tend to suffer from motivational deficits and low treatment adherence. It has been suggested that using virtual reality (VR) technology might be effective in addressing these issues. In this study, we aimed to develop a VR-based SCIT and compare its efficacy with that of traditional SCIT. Materials and methods: We developed a novel VR-based social cognition and interaction training (VR-SCIT) that combines traditional SCIT (TR-SCIT) intervention with VR technology. Participants were randomly assigned in a 1:1:1 ratio to the VR-SCIT ( Results: Patients receiving VR-SCIT and TR-SCIT showed a significantly greater improvement on the assessments of emotion perception (Cohen's Conclusion: These preliminary findings indicate that VR-SCIT is a feasible and promising method for improving social cognition and social functioning in patients with schizophrenia.
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