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Virtual reality treatment of flying phobia.
J. A. LozanoM. GallardoConxa PerpiñáRosa Mª BañosCristina BotellaMariano AlcañizJ. Osmasubject
AdultMaleAircraftmedicine.medical_treatmentApplied psychologyExposure therapyPsychological interventionVirtual realitySensitivity and SpecificityFlying PhobiaUser-Computer InterfaceComputer GraphicsMedicineHumansPatient treatmentComputer SimulationElectrical and Electronic EngineeringSimulationTravelConsulting roomCognitive Behavioral Therapybusiness.industryReproducibility of ResultsGeneral MedicineFearComputer Science ApplicationsMultiple baseline designTreatment OutcomePhobic DisordersTherapy Computer-AssistedChronic DiseaseAerospace MedicinePanic DisorderFemaleUser interfaceDesensitization PsychologicbusinessBiotechnologydescription
Flying phobia (FP) might become a very incapacitating and disturbing problem in a person's social, working, and private areas. Psychological interventions based on exposure therapy have proved to be effective, but given the particular nature of this disorder they bear important limitations. Exposure therapy for FP might be excessively costly in terms of time, money, and efforts. Virtual reality (VR) overcomes these difficulties as different significant environments might be created, where the patient can interact with what he or she fears while in a totally safe and protected environment, the therapist's consulting room. This paper intends, on one hand, to show the different scenarios designed by our team for the VR treatment of FP, and on the other, to present the first results supporting the effectiveness of this new tool for the treatment of FP in a multiple baseline study.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-10-17 | IEEE transactions on information technology in biomedicine : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society |