Eliciting affect in teens in a virtual world

在虚拟世界中激发青少年的影响

• 批准号: 7929229
• 负责人: Wendy S Hadley
• 金额: $ 16.38万
• 依托单位: VIRTUALLY BETTER, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2011-12-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7929229
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; Address; Adolescent; Adolescent Risk Behavior; Affect; Affective; Age; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Arousal; Behavior; Businesses; Clinical; Collaborations; Communication; Contracts; Cues; Data; Educational process of instructing; Emotions; Environment; Feedback; HIV; Health; Health Personnel; Health Promotion; Heart Rate; Hospitals; Human immunodeficiency virus test; Intervention; Manuals; Measures; Mediation; Mental Health; Modeling; Pathway interactions; Patient Self-Report; Phase; Physiological; Play; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders; Prevention program; Preventive Intervention; Professional counselor; Public Health; Recruitment Activity; Regulation; Relative (related person); Research; Research Personnel; Respiration; Rhode Island; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk Reduction; Role; Safe Sex; Schools; Sex Behavior; Simulate; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Technology; Teenagers; base; condoms; design; emotion regulation; emotional distress; high risk; high risk sexual behavior; improved; peer; programs; public health relevance; response; skills; tool; virtual; virtual reality

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed project will examine the use of immersive virtual reality technology as an intervention tool for HIV Prevention with adolescents. Adolescents are at risk for contracting HIV. Affect dysregulation is common among adolescents. Research has demonstrated connections between poor affect management abilities and risky sexual behavior among adolescents. This research suggests that the ability to regulate one's emotions is key to avoiding risk behaviors and that adolescents are at greater risk for poor affect management skills. Fortunately, these skills can be taught via teaching and modeling, making them an excellent target for intervention, which has previously been approached through role-playing. Immersive virtual reality offers many advantages over group based role-plays, used in HIV prevention interventions for adolescents, in its ability to simulate real-world environments and extend the impact of HIV prevention interventions. Similar to its use in PTSD, immersive virtual reality is a promising technology for giving teens the opportunity to practice using effective affect regulation skills in a highly realistic environment. Additional benefits of this technology will likely be increased engagement and retention in HIV prevention interventions among young adolescents. The overall aims of Phase I and Phase II of this proposed STTR project are to develop and refine a virtual reality environment for adolescents targeting affect management. In Phase I, the research team will develop and refine an immersive virtual environment that will elicit affect in a high-risk situation. The final immersive virtual reality environments (completed in Phase II) can be used by health promotion interventionists in conjunction with an HIV prevention intervention manual as a means to elicit affect and provide adolescents with a "real world" environment in which to practice emotion regulation skills related to substance use and HIV prevention. These aims will be achieved through the collaboration of researchers at Rhode Island Hospital/Brown and Virtually Better, a small business that specializes in creating immersive virtual reality environments for clinical use. This tool will represent a significant advance in the way in which affect regulation skills are practiced and honed, currently achieved via role plays or imaginal exposure, by increasing the salience of cues used to elicit affect, thus making it highly marketable to interventionists, schools, and mental health clinicians. Public Health Significance: (1) Examine whether immersive virtual reality technology provides an enhanced environment for adolescents to practice emotion regulation skills and negotiate safer sexual behavior. (2) Provide adolescent HIV prevention interventions with an additional tool to target sexual risk reduction. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project would design and develop an immersive virtual reality environment for adolescents with mental health problems to provide realistic scenarios with which adolescents can practice managing affect associated with cues to engage in risk behaviors.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的项目将研究使用沉浸式虚拟现实技术作为与青少年预防HIV的干预工具的使用。青少年有患艾滋病毒的风险。影响失调在青少年中很常见。研究表明，影响不良的管理能力与青少年有风险的性行为之间的联系。这项研究表明，调节自己的情绪的能力是避免风险行为的关键，并且青少年对影响管理技能的不良风险更大。幸运的是，可以通过教学和建模来教授这些技能，这使它们成为干预的绝佳目标，以前通过角色扮演已接触。沉浸式虚拟现实具有比基于群体的角色扮演的许多优势，这些优势在模拟现实世界环境并扩展了预防HIV预防干预措施的影响的能力方面为青少年提供了艾滋病毒预防干预措施。与其在PTSD中的使用类似，沉浸式虚拟现实是一种有前途的技术，可以使青少年有机会在高度现实的环境中使用有效的影响调节技能实践。这项技术的其他好处可能会增加年轻青少年预防艾滋病毒预防干预措施的参与度和保留率。该拟议的STTR项目的第一阶段和第二阶段的总体目标是为针对影响管理的青少年开发和完善虚拟现实环境。在第一阶段，研究团队将开发和完善身临其境的虚拟环境，在高风险情况下会产生影响。健康促进干预者与艾滋病毒预防干预手册的结合使用最终的沉浸式虚拟现实环境（在第二阶段中完成）可以使用，作为引起影响的手段，并为青少年提供“现实世界”环境，以实践与药物使用和预防艾滋病毒相关的情绪调节技能。这些目标将通过在罗德岛医院/布朗的研究人员的合作以及几乎更好的情况下实现，这是一家小型企业，专门用于创建沉浸式虚拟现实环境以供临床使用。该工具将在实践和磨练的方式上代表着一个重大的进步，目前通过角色扮演或想象中的暴露来实现，通过提高引起影响的线索的显着性，从而使其对干预主义者，学校和心理健康临床医生的销售高度销售。公共卫生的意义：（1）检查沉浸式虚拟现实技术是否为青少年练习情绪调节技能和谈判更安全的性行为提供了增强的环境。 （2）为青少年的艾滋病毒预防干预措施提供额外的工具，以减少性风险。 公共卫生相关性：该项目将为患有心理健康问题的青少年设计和开发一个沉浸式的虚拟现实环境，以提供现实的情景，青少年可以练习与从事风险行为相关的线索的管理影响。