ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2023
The efficacy of virtual reality exposure therapy for the treatment of alcohol use disorder among adult males: a randomized controlled trial comparing with acceptance and commitment therapy and treatment as usual.
Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05841823 (The Efficacy of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder Among Adult Males), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.
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The Efficacy of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder Among Adult Males: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing With Treatment-as-usual
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- Virtual Reality-Based Cue Exposure and Aversion Therapy for Alcohol Dependence: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Addiction biology · 2026Trial
- Virtual reality interventions in the assessment and treatment of alcohol use disorder - a systematic scoping review on methodology.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- Facial expression analysis and machine learning for objective assessment of alcohol craving in alcohol use disorder: a study protocol.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Background: This multicenter, three-armed, parallel, single-blind randomized controlled trial (RCT) primarily aims to compare the efficacy of virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) with that of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and treatment as usual (TAU) to depreciate the degree of alcohol craving among alcohol use disorder patients who have undergone in-patient detoxification across four timelines (t Methods: Initially, after 2 weeks of in-patient detoxification, 120 patients with alcohol use disorder will be randomized into three groups (VRET, ACT, and TAU control groups) via stratified permuted block randomization in a 1:1:1 ratio. Baseline assessment (t Discussion: As data on the effects of non-pharmacological interventions, such as VRET and ACT, on the treatment of alcohol craving and preventing relapse in alcohol use disorder are lacking, this RCT fills the research gap by providing these important data to treating clinicians. If proven efficacious, the efficacy of VRET and ACT for the treatment of other substance use disorders should also be investigated in future. Clinical trial registration: NCT05841823 (ClinicalTrials.gov).
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