{"id":170990,"date":"2023-08-31T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/virtual-reality-for-supporting-the-treatment-of-depression-and-anxiety-scoping-review"},"modified":"2023-08-31T07:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T12:30:13","slug":"virtual-reality-for-supporting-the-treatment-of-depression-and-anxiety-scoping-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/virtual-reality-for-supporting-the-treatment-of-depression-and-anxiety-scoping-review","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Reality for Supporting the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety: Scoping Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virtual-reality-for-supporting-the-treatment-of-depression-and-anxiety-scoping-review.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\"> Conclusions: <\/strong> Most studies demonstrated the use of VR to be effective for supporting the treatment of anxiety or depression in a range of settings and recommended its potential as a tool for use in a clinical environment. Even though standalone headsets are much easier to work with and more suitable for home use, the shift from tethered VR headsets to standalone headsets in the mental health environment was not observed. All studies that looked at the use of CBT either in vivo or in a virtual environment found it to be effective in supporting the treatment of anxiety or depression.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\"> Keywords: <\/strong> CBT; anxiety; depression; mental health; virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Nilufar Baghaei, Vibhav Chitale, Andrej Hlasnik, Lehan Stemmet, Hai-Ning Liang, Richard Porter. Originally published in JMIR Mental Health (<a href=\"https:\/\/mental.jmir.org),\">https:\/\/mental.jmir.org),<\/a> 23.09.2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conclusions: Most studies demonstrated the use of VR to be effective for supporting the treatment of anxiety or depression in a range of settings and recommended its potential as a tool for use in a clinical environment. Even though standalone headsets are much easier to work with and more suitable for home use, the shift [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}