Browsing by Author "Rovira, Aitor"
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Automated virtual reality (VR) cognitive therapy for patients with psychosis: study protocol for a single-blind parallel group randomised controlled trial (gameChange).
Freeman, Daniel; Lambe, Sinead; Rovira, Aitor; Goodsell, Andrew; Rosebrock, Laina; Geddes, John R; Clark, David M; Waite, Felicity (2019-08)Introduction Many patients with psychosis experience everyday social situations as anxiety-provoking. The fears can arise, for example, from paranoia, hallucinations, social anxiety or negative-self beliefs. The fears lead ... -
Automated virtual reality cognitive therapy versus virtual reality mental relaxation therapy for the treatment of persistent persecutory delusions in patients with psychosis (THRIVE): a parallel-group, single-blind, randomised controlled trial in England with mediation analyses
Freeman, Daniel; Waite, Felicity; Lambe, Sinead; Diamond, Rowan; Rovira, Aitor; Rosebrock, Laina; Clark, David M (2023-09)Persecutory delusions are a major psychiatric problem that often do not respond sufficiently to standard pharmacological or psychological treatments. We developed a new brief automated virtual reality (VR) cognitive treatment ... -
Automated virtual reality therapy to treat agoraphobic avoidance and distress in patients with psychosis (gameChange): a multicentre, parallel-group, single-blind, randomised, controlled trial in England with mediation and moderation analyses
Freeman, Daniel; Lambe, Sinead; Rosebrock, Laina; Rovira, Aitor; Clark, David M; Waite, Felicity (2022-04)Automated delivery of psychological therapy using immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) might greatly increase the availability of effective help for patients. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of an automated ... -
Developing a virtual reality environment for educational and therapeutic application to investigate psychological reactivity to bullying
Rovira, Aitor; Freeman, Daniel (2023-07)Understanding how bullying victimisation influences cognitive and emotional processes may help to direct early intervention to prevent the development of psychopathology. In a convenience sample of 67 female adolescents, ... -
Developing an automated VR cognitive treatment for psychosis: gameChange VR therapy
Lambe, Sinead; Lister, Rachel; Rosebrock, Laina; Rovira, Aitor; Clark, David M; Freeman, Daniel; Waite, Felicity (2020-04)The automated delivery of psychological treatment using virtual reality (VR) has the potential to revolutionise patient access to evidence-based care. VR creates immersive, interactive computer simulations, which elicit ... -
Encouraging bystander helping behaviour in a violent incident: a virtual reality study using reinforcement learning
Rovira, Aitor (2022-03)Virtual reality (VR) affords the study of the behaviour of people in social situations that would be logistically difficult or ethically problematic in reality. The laboratory-controlled setup makes it straightforward to ... -
A randomised controlled test of emotional attributes of a virtual coach within a virtual reality (VR) mental health treatment
Freeman, Daniel; Rovira, Aitor (2023-07)We set out to test whether positive non-verbal behaviours of a virtual coach can enhance people's engagement in automated virtual reality therapy. 120 individuals scoring highly for fear of heights participated. In a ... -
A validation study to trigger nicotine craving in virtual reality
Rovira, Aitor; Freeman, Daniel (2022-04)We built a virtual beer garden that contained various smoking cues (both verbal and non-verbal) using a motion capture system to record the realistic smoking behaviour related animations. Our 3-min long VR experience was ... -
Virtual reality clinical-experimental tests of compassion treatment techniques to reduce paranoia
Waite, Felicity; Rovira, Aitor; Freeman, Daniel (2020-05)Paranoia may build on negative beliefs held both about the self and others. Compassionate imagery may be one way of reducing such negative beliefs, and hence paranoia. Two studies tested this idea, one targeting compassion ...