Assessment of virtual environments for alcohol Relapse Prevention in a less immersive and cost-effective setup: A qualitative study

Relapse prevention (RP) - helping people to develop relevant coping skills in high-risk situations that challenge abstinence - is an important part of alcohol use disorder treatment. Recreating personalised, high-risk situations can be challenging in clinical contexts. Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT)...

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Autores principales:	Rigina Skeva, Lynsey Gregg, Caroline Jay, Steve Pettifer
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Virtual reality therapy Avatars Presence Realism Alcohol misuse Alcohol advertisement Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f30408e778af43a8bf82ca953f7cc9492021-12-01T05:04:28ZAssessment of virtual environments for alcohol Relapse Prevention in a less immersive and cost-effective setup: A qualitative study2451-958810.1016/j.chbr.2021.100120https://doaj.org/article/f30408e778af43a8bf82ca953f7cc9492021-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958821000683https://doaj.org/toc/2451-9588Relapse prevention (RP) - helping people to develop relevant coping skills in high-risk situations that challenge abstinence - is an important part of alcohol use disorder treatment. Recreating personalised, high-risk situations can be challenging in clinical contexts. Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT) has the potential to offer immersive exposure to relevant, interactive stimuli presented in Virtual Environments (VEs). The use of VRT in RP remains unexplored. In this study, 10 casual and 13 high-risk drinkers assessed, via unstructured interviews, the realism of three ‘high-risk’ VEs: a home, a supermarket and a pub, and the extent to which they induced alcohol temptation when presented in a less immersive, cost-effective setup. Template analysis revealed that proximal (alcohol stimuli) and contextual (stimuli typically associated with alcohol) cues, and a sense of presence within the VEs, were key aspects to inducing realism and alcohol temptation. High-risk drinkers were tempted to drink in any VE and regular drinkers primarily in a social, pub VE. Temptation to smoke was induced in smokers. The results suggest that the VEs may help people with alcohol or comorbid tobacco misuse to practice coping with craving, refusal skills (saying ‘no’ to prompts to drink) and emotion regulation in social, private and alcohol vending contexts. The interconnections of realism, presence, alcohol temptation and related cues discussed here can inform future VRT applications for alcohol treatment.Rigina SkevaLynsey GreggCaroline JaySteve PettiferElsevierarticleVirtual reality therapyAvatarsPresenceRealismAlcohol misuseAlcohol advertisementElectronic computers. Computer scienceQA75.5-76.95PsychologyBF1-990ENComputers in Human Behavior Reports, Vol 4, Iss , Pp 100120- (2021)
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topic	Virtual reality therapy Avatars Presence Realism Alcohol misuse Alcohol advertisement Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Psychology BF1-990
spellingShingle	Virtual reality therapy Avatars Presence Realism Alcohol misuse Alcohol advertisement Electronic computers. Computer science QA75.5-76.95 Psychology BF1-990 Rigina Skeva Lynsey Gregg Caroline Jay Steve Pettifer Assessment of virtual environments for alcohol Relapse Prevention in a less immersive and cost-effective setup: A qualitative study
description	Relapse prevention (RP) - helping people to develop relevant coping skills in high-risk situations that challenge abstinence - is an important part of alcohol use disorder treatment. Recreating personalised, high-risk situations can be challenging in clinical contexts. Virtual Reality Therapy (VRT) has the potential to offer immersive exposure to relevant, interactive stimuli presented in Virtual Environments (VEs). The use of VRT in RP remains unexplored. In this study, 10 casual and 13 high-risk drinkers assessed, via unstructured interviews, the realism of three ‘high-risk’ VEs: a home, a supermarket and a pub, and the extent to which they induced alcohol temptation when presented in a less immersive, cost-effective setup. Template analysis revealed that proximal (alcohol stimuli) and contextual (stimuli typically associated with alcohol) cues, and a sense of presence within the VEs, were key aspects to inducing realism and alcohol temptation. High-risk drinkers were tempted to drink in any VE and regular drinkers primarily in a social, pub VE. Temptation to smoke was induced in smokers. The results suggest that the VEs may help people with alcohol or comorbid tobacco misuse to practice coping with craving, refusal skills (saying ‘no’ to prompts to drink) and emotion regulation in social, private and alcohol vending contexts. The interconnections of realism, presence, alcohol temptation and related cues discussed here can inform future VRT applications for alcohol treatment.
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title	Assessment of virtual environments for alcohol Relapse Prevention in a less immersive and cost-effective setup: A qualitative study
title_short	Assessment of virtual environments for alcohol Relapse Prevention in a less immersive and cost-effective setup: A qualitative study
title_full	Assessment of virtual environments for alcohol Relapse Prevention in a less immersive and cost-effective setup: A qualitative study
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Assessment of virtual environments for alcohol Relapse Prevention in a less immersive and cost-effective setup: A qualitative study

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