NCT04909177

oVRcome Self-guided Virtual Reality for Specific Phobias

oVRcome Self-guided Virtual Reality for Specific Phobias: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 126 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Otago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Specific phobias: fear of flying, heights, spiders, dogs and needles are the extremely common and exposure therapy (ET) is the first line of treatment. Using Virtual Reality (VR), participants will have control in gradual exposure to their fears. oVRcome (https://www.ovrcome.io/ Virtual reality app), is a self-help VRET for specific phobias, that is delivered through a smartphone application (app) in combination with a low cost headset that holds the smartphone and uses 360º video. The investigators hypothesize that oVRcome is effective in reducing specific phobia symptoms.

Conditions

• Specific Phobia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Smartphone application (app) in combination with headset	The intervention oVRcome is self-help VRET for specific phobia, that is delivered through a smartphone application (app) in combination with headset that holds the smartphone and uses 360º video. oVRcome includes 6 modules of psychoeducation, relaxation, mindfulness, cognitive techniques, exposure through VR, and a relapse prevention module which are aimed to be completed weekly.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-02
• Primary completion: 2021-09-07
• Completion: 2022-03-07
• First posted: 2021-06-01
• Last updated: 2024-08-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: New Zealand