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Titel: Effectiveness of a smartphone-based, augmented reality exposure app to reduce fear of spiders in real-life : A randomized controlled trial
VerfasserIn: Zimmer, Anja
Wang, Nan
Ibach, Merle K.
Fehlmann, Bernhard
Schicktanz, Nathalie S.
Bentz, Dorothée
Michael, Tanja
Papassotiropoulos, Andreas
de Quervain, Dominique J. F.
Sprache: Englisch
Titel: Journal of Anxiety Disorders
Bandnummer: 82
Verlag/Plattform: Elsevier
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Freie Schlagwörter: Fear of spiders
Specific phobia
Smartphone-based AR exposure app
Stand-alone
Behavioural approach test
DDC-Sachgruppe: 150 Psychologie
Dokumenttyp: Journalartikel / Zeitschriftenartikel
Abstract: Although in vivo exposure therapy is highly effective in the treatment of specific phobias, only a minority of patients seeks therapy. Exposure to virtual objects has been shown to be better tolerated, equally efficacious, but the technology has not been made widely accessible yet. We developed an augmented reality (AR) application (app) to reduce fear of spiders and performed a randomized controlled trial comparing the effects of our app (six 30-min sessions at home over a two-week period) with no intervention. Primary outcome was subjective fear, measured by a Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUDS) in a Behavioural Approach Test (BAT) in a real-life spider situation at six weeks follow-up. Between Oct 7, 2019, and Dec 6, 2019, 66 individuals were enrolled and randomized. The intervention led to significantly lower subjective fear in the BAT compared to the control group (intervention group, baseline: 7.12 [SD 2.03] follow-up: 5.03 [SD 2.19] vs. control group, baseline: 7.06 [SD 2.34], follow-up 6.24 [SD 2.21]; adjusted group difference -1.24, 95 % CI -2.17 to -0.31; Cohen’s d = 0.57, p = 0.010). The repeated use of the AR app reduces subjective fear in a real-life spider situation, providing a low-threshold and low-cost treatment for fear of spiders.
DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102442
URL der Erstveröffentlichung: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088761852100089X
Link zu diesem Datensatz: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-382211
hdl:20.500.11880/34491
http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-38221
ISSN: 0887-6185
Datum des Eintrags: 25-Nov-2022
Bezeichnung des in Beziehung stehenden Objekts: Supplementary data
In Beziehung stehendes Objekt: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S088761852100089X-mmc1.pdf
Fakultät: HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft
Fachrichtung: HW - Psychologie
Professur: HW - Prof. Dr. Tanja Michael
Sammlung:SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes

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