NCT05839431

Virtual Reality for Youth Phobias

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Miami · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) delivered exposure therapy for youth with phobias or social anxiety, with and without autism spectrum disorder. The study team is also interested in collecting information to better understand phobias and social anxiety.

Conditions

• Specific Phobia
• Social Anxiety Disorder
• Autism Spectrum Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Virtual Reality for Youth Phobias	The intervention will consist of up to 10, 50-minute-long weekly in-person individual sessions of virtual reality-assisted exposure therapy. This intervention also includes psychoeducation about anxiety/phobias and their maintenance, youth strategies for tolerating distress, and parent strategies for reducing accommodation of anxiety.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-07-14
• Primary completion: 2024-03-31
• Completion: 2024-03-31
• First posted: 2023-05-03
• Last updated: 2024-07-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States