Psychosis Clinical Trial
Official title:
Virtual Reality Assisted CBT for Social Difficulties: a Feasibility Study in Early Intervention for Psychosis Services
People experiencing psychosis might find social interactions stressful and avoid them. This can result in isolation and can affect relationships, employment and quality of life. Improving social functioning is a really important aspect of recovery. Facing social situations after the first episode of psychosis can be very difficult and provoke intense anxiety. However, research has shown that the earlier intervention is offered, the better the outcome. Therefore, improving therapies for people experiencing their first episode of psychosis is a key target for research. Virtual Reality presents a unique opportunity to bring real-life-type environments into a therapy session to help people to overcome their distress in social situations and make them feel less anxious. Virtual Reality assisted Therapy (VRT) provides a 'safe space' to practice strategies and techniques to help people work towards improving their social functioning, build new ways of coping with stress and assist them in their recovery. The study uses a standard CBT model and integrates a Virtual Reality environment into it to support exposure and behavioural experiments for social difficulties, which are a key component of treatment.
Participants will be offered up to 10 sessions including a pre and post assessment session. Each participant will set one or more SMART goals for therapy (e.g. be able to use public transport, attend a social gathering or to feel less anxious in social situations) which are worked on both in the therapy sessions and through homework tasks. This is a feasibility study. The aim is to recruit between 6-10 participants to pilot the VRT with. The results of this study will inform future research and practice, by helping to assess if service-users find the new VRT acceptable (e.g. recruitment, retention, drop out rates, participant experiences), and if it is effective (e.g. reduction in symptoms or distress, and improvement in social functioning). It is really important that the clinical care of anyone who chooses to participate in the study is not affected by their participation in this study. The researchers will work closely with clinical teams to ensure this. Clients who engage with the study will still be eligible for all aspects of TAU including psychological interventions, should this be appropriate. The VR technology and environment has been used extensively before in research studies, which have proved that it is safe and effective. However, it has not been used within the NHS context before or embedded within a therapy course before. ;
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