COVID Feel Good-An Easy Self-Help Virtual Reality Protocol to Overcome the Psychological Burden of Coronavirus.

Autor:	Riva G; IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy.; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Bernardelli L; Become-Hub, Milan, Italy., Browning MHEM; Virtual Reality and Nature Lab, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States., Castelnuovo G; IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy.; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Cavedoni S; IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy., Chirico A; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Cipresso P; IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy.; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., de Paula DMB; Sociedad Española de Realidad Virtual y Psicología, Las Rozas - Madrid, Spain., Di Lernia D; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Fernández-Álvarez J; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Figueras-Puigderrajols N; Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., Fuji K; Division of Psychology, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan., Gaggioli A; IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy.; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Gutiérrez-Maldonado J; Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain., Hong U; Department of Media and Communication, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea., Mancuso V; IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy., Mazzeo M; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Molinari E; IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy.; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Moretti LF; Sociedad Española de Realidad Virtual y Psicología, Las Rozas - Madrid, Spain., Ortiz de Gortari AB; The Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology (SLATE), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.; Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium., Pagnini F; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Pedroli E; IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy.; Faculty of Psychology, University of eCampus, Novedrate, Italy., Repetto C; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Sforza F; Become-Hub, Milan, Italy., Stramba-Badiale C; IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy., Tuena C; IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy.; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Malighetti C; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Villani D; Department of Psychology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy., Wiederhold BK; Virtual Reality Medical Center, La Jolla, CA, United States.; Virtual Reality Medical Institute, Brussels, Belgium.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in psychiatry [Front Psychiatry] 2020 Sep 23; Vol. 11, pp. 563319. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Sep 23 (Print Publication: 2020).
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyt.2020.563319
Abstrakt:	Background: Living in the time of the COVID-19 means experiencing not only a global health emergency but also extreme psychological stress with potential emotional side effects such as sadness, grief, irritability, and mood swings. Crucially, lockdown and confinement measures isolate people who become the first and the only ones in charge of their own mental health: people are left alone facing a novel and potentially lethal situation, and, at the same time, they need to develop adaptive strategies to face it, at home. In this view, easy-to-use, inexpensive, and scientifically validated self-help solutions aiming to reduce the psychological burden of coronavirus are extremely necessary. Aims: This pragmatic trial aims to provide the evidence that a weekly self-help virtual reality (VR) protocol can help overcome the psychological burden of the Coronavirus by relieving anxiety, improving well-being, and reinforcing social connectedness. The protocol will be based on the "Secret Garden" 360 VR video online (www.covidfeelgood.com) which simulates a natural environment aiming to promote relaxation and self-reflection. Three hundred sixty-degree or spherical videos allow the user to control the viewing direction. In this way, the user can explore the content from any angle like a panorama and experience presence and immersion. The "Secret Garden" video is combined with daily exercises that are designed to be experienced with another person (not necessarily physically together), to facilitate a process of critical examination and eventual revision of core assumptions and beliefs related to personal identity, relationships, and goals. Methods: This is a multicentric, pragmatic pilot randomized controlled trial involving individuals who experienced the COVID-19 pandemic and underwent a lockdown and quarantine procedures. The trial is approved by the Ethics Committee of the Istituto Auxologico Italiano. Each research group in all the countries joining the pragmatic trial, aims at enrolling at least 30 individuals in the experimental group experiencing the self-help protocol, and 30 in the control group, over a period of 3 months to verify the feasibility of the intervention. Conclusion: The goal of this protocol is for VR to become the "surgical mask" of mental health treatment. Although surgical masks do not provide the wearer with a reliable level of protection against the coronavirus compared with FFP2 or FFP3 masks, surgical masks are very effective in protecting others from the wearer's respiratory emissions. The goal of the VR protocol is the same: not necessarily to solve complex mental health problems but rather to improve well-being and preserve social connectedness through the beneficial social effects generated by positive emotions. (Copyright © 2020 Riva, Bernardelli, Browning, Castelnuovo, Cavedoni, Chirico, Cipresso, de Paula, Di Lernia, Fernández-Álvarez, Figueras-Puigderrajols, Fuji, Gaggioli, Gutiérrez-Maldonado, Hong, Mancuso, Mazzeo, Molinari, Moretti, Ortiz de Gortari, Pagnini, Pedroli, Repetto, Sforza, Stramba-Badiale, Tuena, Malighetti, Villani and Wiederhold.)
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