Wearables in medicine

AK Yetisen, JL Martinez‐Hurtado, B Ünal… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Wearables as medical technologies are becoming an integral part of personal analytics,
measuring physical status, recording physiological parameters, or informing schedule for …

Virtual reality exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis

T Horigome, S Kurokawa, K Sawada, S Kudo… - Psychological …, 2020 - cambridge.org
BackgroundVirtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) is currently being used to treat social
anxiety disorder (SAD); however, VRET's magnitude of efficacy, duration of efficacy, and …

Virtual reality exposure therapy for anxiety and related disorders: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

E Carl, AT Stein, A Levihn-Coon, JR Pogue… - Journal of anxiety …, 2019 - Elsevier
Trials of virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) for anxiety-related disorders have
proliferated in number and diversity since our previous meta-analysis that examined 13 total …

A meta-analysis of virtual reality training programs for social skill development

MC Howard, MB Gutworth - Computers & Education, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent years have seen an increase in the number of researchers and practitioners
applying virtual reality (VR) to develop social skills, but varying levels of success have been …

Virtual reality compared with in vivo exposure in the treatment of social anxiety disorder: a three-arm randomised controlled trial

S Bouchard, S Dumoulin, G Robillard… - The British Journal of …, 2017 - cambridge.org
BackgroundPeople with social anxiety disorder (SAD) fear social interactions and may be
reluctant to seek treatments involving exposure to social situations. Social exposure …

Virtual reality exercise as a coping strategy for health and wellness promotion in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

Z Gao, JE Lee, DJ McDonough, C Albers - Journal of clinical medicine, 2020 - mdpi.com
The December 2019 COVID-19 outbreak in China has led to worldwide quarantine, as
recommended by local governments and the World Health Organization. Particularly …

Virtual reality exposure therapy for anxiety disorders: A meta-analysis

MB Powers, PMG Emmelkamp - Journal of anxiety disorders, 2008 - Elsevier
There is now a substantial literature investigating virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) as
a viable treatment option for anxiety disorders. In this meta-analysis we provide effect size …

A review of technology-assisted self-help and minimal contact therapies for anxiety and depression: is human contact necessary for therapeutic efficacy?

MG Newman, LE Szkodny, SJ Llera… - Clinical psychology …, 2011 - Elsevier
Technology-based self-help and minimal contact therapies have been proposed as effective
and low-cost interventions for anxiety and mood disorders. The present article reviews the …

Clinical virtual reality tools to advance the prevention, assessment, and treatment of PTSD

AS Rizzo, R Shilling - European journal of psychotraumatology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Numerous reports indicate that the incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in
Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn …

An experiment on public speaking anxiety in response to three different types of virtual audience

DP Pertaub, M Slater, C Barker - Presence, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes an experiment to assess the anxiety responses of people giving 5 min.
presentations to virtual audiences consisting of eight male avatars. There were three …