Development and early evaluation of the Virtual Iraq/Afghanistan exposure therapy system for combat-related PTSD
| Autor: | JoAnn Difede, Albert Rizzo, Josh Spitalnick, Judith Cukor, Barbara O. Rothbaum, Rob McLay, Greg M. Reger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry General Neuroscience medicine.medical_treatment Exposure therapy General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Clinical trial Posttraumatic stress Military personnel History and Philosophy of Science Early results Health care medicine Afghan Campaign 2001 Psychiatry business After treatment |
| Zdroj: | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1208:114-125 |
| ISSN: | 0077-8923 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05755.x |
| Popis: | Numerous reports indicate that the growing incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in returning Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) military personnel is creating a significant health care and economic challenge. These findings have served to motivate research on how to better develop and disseminate evidence-based treatments for PTSD. Virtual reality-delivered exposure therapy for PTSD has been previously used with reports of positive outcomes. The current paper will detail the development and early results from use of the Virtual Iraq/Afghanistan exposure therapy system. The system consists of a series of customizable virtual scenarios designed to represent relevant Middle Eastern contexts for exposure therapy, including a city and desert road convoy environment. The process for gathering user-centered design feedback from returning OEF/OIF military personnel and from a system deployed in Iraq (as was needed to iteratively evolve the system) will be discussed, along with a brief summary of results from an open clinical trial using Virtual Iraq with 20 treatment completers, which indicated that 16 no longer met PTSD checklist-military criteria for PTSD after treatment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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