ReviewFrontiers in digital health2026
Virtual reality in treatment of psychological disorders: a systematic review.
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Abstract
Objective: The paper aims to systematically review the literature on the efficacy of virtual reality (VR) based therapies to treat mental health disorders in Randomized Control Trials (RCTs). Methods: As of January 2,025, three databases were searched using relevant key terms (PsycINFO, PubMed, and Medline) and Rayyan tool. Eligible studies were English-language RCTs of VR-based interventions with a clearly specified therapeutic framework (e.g., CBT) in adult psychiatric populations. We excluded pediatric or neurodevelopmental samples, animal studies, psychiatric symptoms secondary to medical conditions and those using non-immersive VR (e.g., AR) or inadequately described interventions. The three authors screened the abstracts and rotated the full review of selected papers. From the 1611 papers generated from the search results 41 were included in the systematic review, encompassing anxiety, mood, trauma-related, obsessive-compulsive, eating, substance use, and psychotic disorders. Results: Narrative syntheses of RCTs studies showed that across diagnostic categories, VR-based therapies outperformed waitlist and other inactive controls. For specific phobias, panic disorder with agoraphobia, and social anxiety, VR exposure was generally as effective as Conclusion: Overall, results support VR as an effective therapeutic modality, though heterogeneity across findings limits conclusions about its superiority over established evidence-based
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