背景:沉浸式虚拟现实(IVR)在评估中显示出希望,理解,和饮食失调(ED)的治疗,为临床创新提供动态平台。本范围审查旨在综合IVR在解决这些复杂的心理障碍方面的最新进展和应用。
方法:本综述遵循系统综述和Meta分析方案的首选报告项目,专注于过去五年发表的研究。它包括使用IVR进行ED评估的同行评审论文,考试,或治疗。全面的数据库搜索提供了相关文章的选择,然后有条不紊地筛选和分析。
结果:20项研究符合纳入标准,主要关注神经性厌食症(AN),神经性贪食症(BN),暴饮暴食(床)。IVR的应用分为三个方面:评估,理解,和治疗。IVR被发现是评估身体形象扭曲和对食物的情绪反应的有效工具,提供通过传统方法不易获得的见解。此外,IVR通过促进暴露疗法提供创新的治疗方法,修改身体相关的偏见,并通过具体体验实现情绪调节。这些研究表明IVR具有提高身体图像准确性的潜力,减少与食物有关的焦虑,并支持ED患者的行为改变。
结论:IVR作为ED领域的变革性技术脱颖而出,在诊断中提供全面的好处,治疗性的,和经验领域。IVR模拟大脑预测编码机制的能力提供了一个强大的途径,经验干预措施,可以帮助重新校准与ED有关的扭曲的身体表征和功能失调的情感预测模型。未来的研究应该继续完善这些应用,确保一致的方法和更广泛的临床试验,以充分利用IVR在临床环境中的潜力。
BACKGROUND: Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) has shown promise in the assessment, understanding, and treatment of eating disorders (EDs), providing a dynamic platform for clinical innovation. This scoping review aims to synthesize the recent advancements and applications of IVR in addressing these complex psychological disorders.
METHODS: This review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis Protocols, focusing on studies published in the past five years. It included peer-reviewed papers that used IVR for ED assessment, examination, or treatment. A comprehensive database search provided a selection of relevant articles, which were then methodically screened and analyzed.
RESULTS: Twenty studies met the inclusion criteria, with a primary focus on Anorexia Nervosa (AN), Bulimia Nervosa (BN), and Binge Eating Disorder (BED). The application of IVR was categorized into three areas: assessment, understanding, and treatment. IVR was found to be an effective tool in assessing body image distortions and emotional responses to food, providing insights that are less accessible through traditional methods. Furthermore, IVR offers innovative treatment approaches by facilitating exposure therapy, modifying body-related biases, and enabling emotional regulation through embodied experiences. The studies demonstrate IVR\'s potential to improve body image accuracy, reduce food-related anxieties, and support behavioral changes in ED patients.
CONCLUSIONS: IVR stands out as a transformative technology in the field of EDs, offering comprehensive benefits across diagnostic, therapeutic, and experiential domains. The IVR\'s ability to simulate the brain\'s predictive coding mechanisms provides a powerful avenue for delivering embodied, experiential interventions that can help recalibrate distorted body representations and dysfunctional affective predictive models implicated in EDs. Future research should continue to refine these applications, ensuring consistent methodologies and wider clinical trials to fully harness IVR\'s potential in clinical settings.