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Virtual reality compared with in vivo exposure in the treatment of social anxiety disorder: A three-arm randomised controlled trial
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Background: People with social anxiety disorder (SAD) fear social interactions and may be reluctant to seek treatments involving exposure to social situations. Social exposure conducted in virtual reality (VR), embedded in individual cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT), could be an answer. Aims: To show that conducting VR exposure in CBT for SAD is effective and is more practical for therapists than conducting exposure in vivo. Method: Participants were randomly assigned to either VR exposure ( n = 17), in vivo exposure ( n = 22) or waiting list ( n = 20). Participants in the active arms received individual CBT for 14 weekly sessions and outcome was assessed with questionnaires and a behaviour avoidance test. (Trial registration number ISRCTN99747069.) Results: Improvements were found on the primary (Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale) and all five secondary outcome measures in both CBT groups compared with the waiting list. Conducting exposure in VR was more effective at post-treatment than in vivo on the primary outcome measure and on one secondary measure. Improvements were maintained at the 6-month follow-up. VR was significantly more practical for therapists than in vivo exposure. Conclusions: Using VR can be advantageous over standard CBT as a potential solution for treatment avoidance and as an efficient, cost-effective and practical medium of exposure.
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“The superiority of in virtuo exposure that we observed on some of the measures has not been found in these previous studies on SAD 21,23,24”
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The Background and Methods (page unavailable) describe an epidemiological survey of social phobia, not exposure-treatment trials. A search for in virtuo or virtual-reality exposure and comparisons with earlier trials found no passage addressing whether those trials observed an advantage on any measures. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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The paper’s Abstract says in virtuo exposure is effective for social anxiety, but it does not compare its outcomes with other exposure methods in earlier SAD trials. Its Results and Discussion concern anxiety induced by a contaminated virtual environment in people with OCD. Searches for SAD trials and comparative superiority found no passage addressing whether those trials observed an advantage on particular measures. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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“Improvements were maintained at the 6-month follow-up.”
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“The time6 conditions interactions and contrasts revealed that CBT with in virtuo exposure was more effective at follow-up on the LSAS-SR only (Fig. 2).”
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“VR was significantly more practical for therapists than in vivo exposure.”
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“while treatment credibility was not a significant predictor.”
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“The difference between both active conditions did not approach statistical significance (w 2 (1) = 0.33, not significant).”
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“working alliance was a strong and significant predictor of change in LSAS-SR in the CBT with in virtuo exposure condition (t = 72.52,P50.05, sr = 70.52)”
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“All gains were maintained at the 6-month follow-up.”
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“There were no statistical differences in the attrition rate between the two groups (Fisher's exact test P = 0.67).”
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“In the case of SAD, CBT with in virtuo exposure could offer several advantages compared with traditional CBT. 14”
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“As regards the 6-month follow-up analyses, there was a significant time effect across all outcomes from pre-treatment to follow-up, and no significant change between post-treatment and follow-up (Table 4).”
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“Planned contrasts revealed significantly decreased scores in the active treatment conditions compared with the waiting list, and no differences between CBT conditions across all outcomes except the LSAS-SR and the SPS, where CBT with in virtuo exposure was more effective than CBT with in vivo exposure.”
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“Conducting exposure in VR was more effective at post-treatment than in vivo on the primary outcome measure and on one secondary measure.”
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“Analyses with the waiting-list condition revealed statistically significant effects of time and time6condition interaction across all outcome measures (Table 3).”
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“Improvements were found on the primary (Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale) and all five secondary outcome measures in both CBT groups compared with the waiting list.”
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“How practical and effortless it was for therapists conducting the exposure, as measured with the SWEAT, was rated at 15. 24”
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“the success rates were much higher and consistent with other studies on SAD than those found by Kampmann et al. 24”
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“Reliable change from pre-to post-treatment was observed in 76.5% (n = 13/17) of participants who had received CBT with in virtuo exposure, 68.3% (n = 15/22) who had received CBT with in vivo exposure, and 30.0%(n = 6/20) in the waiting-list condition (w 2 (2) = 9.78, P50.01).”
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“At post-treatment, VR was more effective than traditional exposure on the main outcome measure (LSAS-SR) and one of the five secondary outcome measures (SPS, a global assessment of social anxiety).The latter difference did not reach the corrected significance level at follow-up.”
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“VR was neither more nor less effective than traditional exposure on the behavioural measure and on the measures of fear of social interactions, fear of negative evaluation and depressive mood.”
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“Results on the SWEAT are now providing this information.”
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“The success rate in terms of reliable change index was high and similar in both active treatment conditions.”
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“First, results on the SWEAT revealed that conducting exposure was simpler in VR, making it possible to exploit the exposure experiences more.”
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“Moreover, psychotherapy itself can be perceived as highly frightening or a threat to their need for privacy. 6”
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“The trial was registered with ISRCTN: 99747069.”
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“Treatment standardisation was maximised using treatment manuals 44 and treatment fidelity was maximised through weekly supervisions from the principal investigator.”
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“Adherence to research protocols was also assessed by independent raters who reviewed videos of therapy sessions based on a grid used in previous CBT studies. 45”
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“Compared with phobias, using VR with SAD requires a larger range of scenarios, cues eliciting social fears and virtual environments.”
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“Therapists also have the possibility of varying the context of immersion (for example shops, restaurants) without ever leaving the office, allowing for complete confidentiality and maximising the generalisation of inhibitory learning. 15”
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“However, in vivo exposure exercises (for example asking for the time on the street, browsing in a shop) raise the same issues regarding arousal and loss of privacy as CBT in a group format and may be cumbersome for therapists”
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“Paradoxically, despite its frequency, severity and the existence of effective treatments, SAD remains largely undertreated. 2,3”
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“Patients with SAD seem to avoid healthcare services like they do other social interactions. 3,4”
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“The institutional review board approved the protocol and all patients provided written informed consent after receiving a complete description of the study.”
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“Therapy in an individual setting can be an alternative to the group format that overcomes those limits. 11”
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“Intent-to-treat analyses based on data from all participants who completed the baseline assessment (Fig. 1) were conducted using the last-observation carried-forward for those who did not complete treatment.”
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“Patients with SAD often wait many years while their symptoms evolve before consulting, by which time complications have already occurred. [2][3]][4]”
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“The use of virtual scenarios allows for controlled, manageable and reproducible social exposure.”
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“These technologies have been used extensively with specific phobias (such as fear of flying) but their applications now extend to more complex disorders (for example obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalised anxiety disorder). 13”
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“all diagnoses were reviewed and confirmed by a second assessor”
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“The speech was video recorded and the patients' behaviour was evaluated using the Social Performance Rating Scale (SPRS) 32 by three independent assessors, masked to hypotheses and treatment conditions.”
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“Using VR can be advantageous over standard CBT as a potential solution for treatment avoidance and as an efficient, cost-effective and practical medium of exposure.”
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“These drawbacks of standard CBT can be overcome with an alternative medium of exposure: virtual reality (VR) or in virtuo exposure”
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“They feel ashamed of their symptoms and fear discussing them with others, including healthcare professionals. 5”
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“The consensus in the field of psychotherapy calls for cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) either in an individual or group format. 9,10”
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“Because of the need to manage a whole group of people, treatment may be less individualised and exposure difficult to handle for the therapist.”
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“When planning the study, a power analysis was conducted using effect sizes from previous studies. 11,18,23”
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“Random assignments were generated with a random numbers table prior to recruitment.”
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“The primary outcome was identified before the study began as the total score on the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale-Self Reported version (LSAS-SR)”
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“There are effective treatments for SAD that rely on medication or psychotherapy. [7][8]8][9]”
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“Paired t-tests were conducted for each session and none suggested a significant increase in SSQ scores (statistics not reported, all P40.2).”
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“Assignments were concealed until the first therapy session began.”
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“CBT with in virtuo exposure followed the same methodology as CBT with in vivo exposure, with the only difference that it exclusively used VR immersion to conduct exposure (i.e.no in vivo exposure).”
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- Rests on an assumption: Participants in the in virtuo condition complied with the instruction not to engage in any in vivo exposure.
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“Results confirmed both hypotheses: conducting CBT with in virtuo exposure was effective and more practical for therapists than CBT with in vivo exposure.”
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“Behavioural assessments were chosen instead and support results found with self-reports.”
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“Limiting exposure to talking to virtual characters and the absence of a cognitive component that facilitates how exposure is mentally processed by patients may explain why in virtuo exposure was less effective than in other published trials.”
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“Patients improved significantly with treatment and improvements were maintained after 1 year.”
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“New virtual environments can now depict more complicated social interactions 15 and rely on virtual characters with promising artificial intelligence. 24”
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“Because conducting exposure in VR is less cumbersome and rapidly becoming more affordable, there should be an increase in acceptance of this technology.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Virtual reality is rapidly becoming more affordable.
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“One important contribution of this study is the use of a measure assessing the burden, challenges and costs of conducting exposure.”
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“The absence of direct support from the therapist might have had a negative impact on the therapeutic alliance and thus might have reduced the efficacy of in virtuo exposure.”
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“Previous studies have shown that giving a speech in front of a virtual audience can elicit distress and physiological arousal in patients with SAD. 17”
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- Not checked yetcites [17]
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“Numerous studies have also shown the efficacy of in virtuo exposure for treating fear about public speaking. [18][19]9][20]”
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- Not checked yetcites [18][19]9][20]
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“Second, the importance of the therapeutic alliance in predicting outcome highlights the importance of the therapists in conducting exposure.”
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“Furthermore, the quality of the working alliance was not different in the two treatment conditions. 22”
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“Results revealed that participants in both treatment conditions improved from pre-to postassessment on social anxiety, avoidance, speech duration during a behavioural assessment task, perceived stress, and avoidant personality disorder related beliefs when compared with the waiting-list control group. 24”
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“Nevertheless, conducting an RCT with all stimuli perfectly matched between conditions would increase the validity of the trial.”
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“First, the lack of clinical evaluations by independent assessors masked to the study raises the potential issues of the objectivity of clinical assessments using questionnaires.”
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“These results support what has been found with other anxiety disorders 13 and show that CBT combined with exposure in VR is an effective and efficient alternative to classical individual CBT, acutely and in the long term.”
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- Not checked yetcites [13]
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“However, individual exposure with VR may be more enticing to patients disinclined from social exposure or sensitive to strict confidentiality concerning their disorder.”
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“However, CBT with in vivo exposure was found superior to CBT with in virtuo exposure on multiple variables (such as social anxiety, personality disorder related beliefs).”
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“However, this was a study on the specific phobia of heights, the exposure scenarios were limited to three situations”
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- Not checked yetcites [46]
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The paper relies on this without support.
In vivo exposure is the gold-standard condition for cognitive-behavioural therapy in social anxiety disorder.
“large with the gold-standard condition (i.e.Cohen's f of 0.4, for a total n of 78).”
The paper relies on this without support.
Participants in the in virtuo condition complied with the instruction not to engage in any in vivo exposure.
“Participants in the in virtuo condition were instructed not to engage in any exposure in vivo.”
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Group CBT is as effective as individual CBT and is widely used.
“although the group format is equally effective and widely used”
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Therapists may be reluctant to adopt virtual reality.
“Therapists may be reluctant to use VR”
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Virtual reality is rapidly becoming more affordable.
“rapidly becoming more affordable”
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“Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with exposure in virtual reality (VR) emerges as a promising intervention for treating speaking anxiety in pediatric populations.”
From Speaking face-to-face with a virtual avatar to reduce anxiety in students who stutter: Tool development and pilot study results. (2026) · cites this paper as Bouchard et al., 2017
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“In addition, therapists have no control over in vivo treating context, which can elevate patient arousal and raise privacy issues (Bouchard et al., 2017; Stangier et al., 2003).”
From Speaking face-to-face with a virtual avatar to reduce anxiety in students who stutter: Tool development and pilot study results. (2026) · cites this paper as Bouchard et al., 2017
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“The virtual reality method of treating anxiety-related disorders is effective and especially useful for tackling social anxiety.”
From Fear and Anxiety in COVID-19: Preexisting Anxiety Disorders (2021) · cites this paper as Bouchard et al., 2017
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“While both exposure conditions were of comparable efficacy regarding most outcome measures, VRET exceeded the in vivo condition in the primary outcome measure, with significantly greater symptom reductions in patients receiving exposure in virtuo.”
From Virtual Reality exposure therapy in the treatment of public speaking anxiety and social anxiety disorder (2024) · cites this paper as Bouchard et al., 2017
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“Exposure-based interventions addressing social fears can be resource-intensive and time-consuming due to the need to facilitate exposure exercises often outside the safety of a standardized, closely measured and accompanied environment (Reeves et al., 2022; Bouchard et al., 2017).”
From Virtual Reality exposure therapy in the treatment of public speaking anxiety and social anxiety disorder (2024) · cites this paper as Bouchard et al., 2017
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“Apart from public speaking situations, job interviews comprised a considerable amount of exposure situations (e.g., Bouchard et al., 2017; Stefaniak et al., 2022; Kampmann et al., 2016b).”
From Virtual Reality exposure therapy in the treatment of public speaking anxiety and social anxiety disorder (2024) · cites this paper as Bouchard et al., 2017
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“Virtual reality (VR) exposure in CBT holds potential as an alternative therapeutic technique for treating phobias and social anxiety in adults (Bouchard et al., 2017; Chesham et al., 2018; Horigome et al., 2020; Wechsler et al., 2019) and children (Beele et al., 2024; Man et al., 2024; Parrish et al., 2016; Wong Sarver et al., 2014).”
From Speaking face-to-face with a virtual avatar to reduce anxiety in students who stutter: Tool development and pilot study results. (2026) · cites this paper as Bouchard et al., 2017
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“as is the case of the study of Bouchard et al. (2017), in which 9 of the treatment sessions were not recorded because of technical issues.”
From Virtual reality and psychedelics for the treatment of psychiatric disease: A systematic literature review (2020) · cites this paper as Bouchard et al. (2017)
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“Bouchard et al. [20] is the only study presenting findings in favor of VRET condition.”
From Recent Progress in Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Phobias: A Systematic Review (2017) · cites this paper as [20]
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“Contrary to this expectation, studies of patients treated with VRET and in vivo exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder found no significant difference between interventions as measured by the WAI [10-12].”
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“| Addiction | 5 (8.5) | 1 (5.9) | 2 (3.4) | 1 (5.0) | | | |”
Reported 3.4 · recomputed 9.090909
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“| White, n (%) | 55 (94.8) | 17 (100.0) | 21 (95.5) | 17 (85.0) | 5.88 | | |”
Reported 94.8 · recomputed 93.220339
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“| Low income, n (%) | 16 (21.1) | 4 (23.5) | 5 (22.7) | 7 (35.0) | 2.93 | | |”
Reported 21.1 · recomputed 27.118644
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In the paper
“| Medication, n (%) | 9 (16.7) | 2 (11.8) | 3 (13.6) | 4 (20.0) | 1.58 | | |”
Reported 16.7 · recomputed 15.254237
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
“| Addiction | 5 (8.5) | 1 (5.9) | 2 (3.4) | 1 (5.0) | | | |”
Reported 5 · recomputed 4
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bouchard, S., Dumoulin, S., Robillard, G., Guitard, T., Klinger, É., Forget, H., Loranger, C., & Roucaut, F. X.
- Affiliations
- Université du Québec en Outaouais (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Bouchard, Stéphane
- Venue
- British Journal of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Published
- 2017-04
- Volume
- 210
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 276-283
- ISSN
- 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
- 1472-1465
- OpenAlex
- W2565451694
- Cited by
- 354
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 28 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 45 · 2023: 48 · 2022: 39 · 2021: 51 · 2020: 39 · 2019: 31 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 10
- FWCI
- 31.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The British Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Canada Research Chairs (950-10762)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (10762)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Keywords
- social anxiety disorder, virtual reality exposure, in vivo exposure, cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure therapy, treatment avoidance, maintenance therapy, cost-effectiveness
- MeSH terms
- Phobia, Social, Adult, Female, Humans, Implosive Therapy, Male, Middle Aged, User-Computer Interface, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Outcome Assessment, Health Care
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