Adolescent Behavior Clinical Trial
Official title:
Virtual-reality and Emotion Regulation in Violence-Exposed Youth
The current proposal aims to evaluate a novel virtual-reality-based (VR-B) video game treatment for emotional dysregulation for youth currently under the supervision of the juvenile justice system. 60 participants under the age of 17 will be enrolled and will be asked to complete up to 6 VR-B sessions.
The goal of this proposal is to determine the feasibility of a novel virtual-reality-based biofeedback (VR-B) treatment among youth highly vulnerable to difficulties in emotional regulation. Biofeedback, which involves the provision of real-time information about physiology, is a well-studied approach to enhancing self-regulatory ability, with potential promise for alleviating mental health problems. In children (as well as adults), biofeedback may be ideally facilitated through video game environments, which offer engaging, immersive, yet dynamic environments that can be changed in real-time. Video games are enormously popular with youth, and may represent an important avenue for treatment in adolescent populations. The current proposal aims to evaluate a novel virtual-reality-based video game treatment for emotional dysregulation for youth currently under the supervision of the juvenile justice system. Exposure to risk factors known to promote impaired self-regulation, such as child mal-treatment, is nearly endemic in this population. Indeed, 'delinquent' youth (i.e., youth in contact with the justice system) are considerably more likely to meet diagnostic criteria for a range of disorders centrally involving dysregulation of affect or arousal, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant disorder, and many others. Specific Aims: - AIM 1: Evaluate the feasibility of a virtual reality treatment for youth - Hypothesis 1: Study youth receiving treatment with the virtual reality-based paradigm will qualitatively report the experience to be tolerable and positive with minimal discomfort. - AIM 2: Identify potential changes in physiological signaling (e.g., heart rate, skin conductance) across treatment sessions - Hypothesis 2: Youth receiving virtual reality biofeedback (VRB) treatment will exhibit physiological changes across sessions (e.g., increased heart rate variability or changes in skin conductance responses). - AIM 3: Identify potential changes in symptom severity across treatment sessions - Hypothesis 3: Youth receiving virtual reality biofeedback (VRB) treatment will show greater improvements in youth emotion regulation and reduced severity of PTSD mental health symptoms. ;
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