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Is Virtual Reality Cue Exposure a Promising Adjunctive Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder?

This narrative review presents recent developments in virtual reality (VR)-based interventions for alcohol use disorders (AUDs). The latest advances in mental healthcare hail an imminent cyber revolution, ushering in novel treatment options, with immersive virtual technology at the very forefront of...

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Autores principales: Lebiecka, Zofia, Skoneczny, Tomasz, Tyburski, Ernest, Samochowiec, Jerzy, Kucharska-Mazur, Jolanta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8268737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34279455
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10132972
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author Lebiecka, Zofia
Skoneczny, Tomasz
Tyburski, Ernest
Samochowiec, Jerzy
Kucharska-Mazur, Jolanta
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description This narrative review presents recent developments in virtual reality (VR)-based interventions for alcohol use disorders (AUDs). The latest advances in mental healthcare hail an imminent cyber revolution, ushering in novel treatment options, with immersive virtual technology at the very forefront of expected change. With an aim to (a) provide a background on VR use in mental healthcare of AUD patients, (b) summarize existing evidence on conventional approaches to the treatment of AUDs and a trending paradigm shift towards VR applications in their management, and (c) describe key issues and future directions in research on craving assessment and VR cue-induced therapy in AUDs, a search for experimental and meta-analytic evidence was performed in six databases: PubMed and EBSCO (Medline, ERIC, PsychINFO, Academic Search Ultimate, and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition). Pooled results were screened for eligibility, and relevant papers were selected for inclusion. The analysis revealed VR’s promising effects in the treatment of AUDs. Its remarkable potential to simulate cues underlying subsequent addictive behaviors makes its application in the assessment and treatment of AUDs an attractive alternative to researchers and clinicians alike. Nevertheless, more evidence is needed before virtual reality cue exposure therapy (VR-CET) can become a clinical standard of care.
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spelling pubmed-82687372021-07-10 Is Virtual Reality Cue Exposure a Promising Adjunctive Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder? Lebiecka, Zofia Skoneczny, Tomasz Tyburski, Ernest Samochowiec, Jerzy Kucharska-Mazur, Jolanta J Clin Med Review This narrative review presents recent developments in virtual reality (VR)-based interventions for alcohol use disorders (AUDs). The latest advances in mental healthcare hail an imminent cyber revolution, ushering in novel treatment options, with immersive virtual technology at the very forefront of expected change. With an aim to (a) provide a background on VR use in mental healthcare of AUD patients, (b) summarize existing evidence on conventional approaches to the treatment of AUDs and a trending paradigm shift towards VR applications in their management, and (c) describe key issues and future directions in research on craving assessment and VR cue-induced therapy in AUDs, a search for experimental and meta-analytic evidence was performed in six databases: PubMed and EBSCO (Medline, ERIC, PsychINFO, Academic Search Ultimate, and Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition). Pooled results were screened for eligibility, and relevant papers were selected for inclusion. The analysis revealed VR’s promising effects in the treatment of AUDs. Its remarkable potential to simulate cues underlying subsequent addictive behaviors makes its application in the assessment and treatment of AUDs an attractive alternative to researchers and clinicians alike. Nevertheless, more evidence is needed before virtual reality cue exposure therapy (VR-CET) can become a clinical standard of care. MDPI 2021-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8268737/ /pubmed/34279455 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10132972 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Kucharska-Mazur, Jolanta
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title_sort is virtual reality cue exposure a promising adjunctive treatment for alcohol use disorder?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8268737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34279455
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10132972
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