Effectiveness of Self-guided App-Based Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Acrophobia: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Initiatives
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To examine the effectiveness of ZeroPhobia, a fully self-guided app-based virtual reality cognitive behavior therapy (VR CBT) using low-cost (cardboard) virtual reality goggles compared with a wait-list control group and to determine its user friendliness.
Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box
below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.
- Start Year
- 2012
- Funding
- This study has been funded by NWO Toegepaste en Technische Wetenschappen (2016/STW/00099738) and NWO Creative Industrie-KIEM (314-98-076).
Design
- Study design
- Clinical trial cohort
Marker Paper
Donker T, Cornelisz I, van Klaveren C, et al. Effectiveness of Self-guided App-Based Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Acrophobia: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Psychiatry. 2019;76(7):682‐690. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2019.0219
PUBMED 30892564
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 193
- Number of participants with biosamples
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Timeline
Dutch general population
A total of 193 individuals aged 18 to 65 years from the Dutch general population with acrophobia symptoms and access to an Android smartphone participated
Selection Criteria
- Minimum age
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18
- Maximum age
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65
- Newborns
- Twins
- Countries
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- Netherlands
- Ethnic Origin
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- Health Status
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- Participants with acrophobia symptoms
Recruitment
- Sources of recruitment
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- General population
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 192
- Number of participants with biosamples
Data Collection Event
To examine the effectiveness of ZeroPhobia, a fully self-guided app-based virtual reality cognitive behavior therapy (VR CBT) using low-cost (cardboard) virtual reality goggles compared with a wait-list control group and to determine its user friendliness.
- Start Date
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2017-03
- End Date
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2017-09
- Data sources
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Mobile data collection
- Mobile phone
- Smartphone
- Smartphone apps
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Mobile data collection