Reduce the Risk: An Affect Management Program for HIV Prevention

降低风险：艾滋病毒预防的影响管理计划

• 批准号: 8638064
• 负责人: Wendy S Hadley
• 金额: $ 49.83万
• 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 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8638064
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent Risk Behavior; Affect; Affective; Age; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Arousal; Businesses; Collaborations; Communication; Contracts; Cues; Educational process of instructing; Emotions; Environment; Feedback; HIV; HIV/STD; Health; Health Personnel; Health Promotion; Heart Rate; Hospitals; Individual; Intervention; Knowledge; Manuals; Measures; Mediation; Mental Health; Modeling; Outcome; Patient Self-Report; Phase; Physiological; Play; Prevention; Prevention program; Preventive Intervention; Professional counselor; Recruitment Activity; Regulation; Relative (related person); Research; Research Personnel; Respiration; Rhode Island; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Risk Reduction; Role; Schools; Series; Sex Behavior; Simulate; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Technology; Teenagers; Testing; Training and Education; base; clinical application; condoms; 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, titled Reduce the Risk: An Affect Management Program for HIV Prevention, 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 enhance the impact of HIV prevention interventions. Immersive virtual reality is a promising technology for giving teens the opportunity to experientially practice using effective affect regulation skills in a highly realistic, context specific virtual environment. Additional benefits f 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, refine, and evaluate virtual reality environments for adolescents targeting affect management. In Phase I, the research team developed and refined an immersive virtual environment that elicited 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, Inc. a small business that specializes in creating immersive virtual reality environments for treatment, education, and training purposes. 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.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议项目的标题为“减少风险：预防艾滋病毒的影响管理计划”，将研究使用沉浸式虚拟现实技术作为与青少年预防艾滋病毒预防的干预工具。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增强艾滋病毒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。身临其境的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，特定的虚拟环境中使用有效影响调节技能进行体验实践。该技术可能会增加艾滋病毒预防干预措施中的额外好处。该拟议的STTR项目的第一阶段和第二阶段的总体目标是开发，完善和评估针对影响管理的青少年的虚拟现实环境。在第一阶段，研究团队开发并完善了一个沉浸式虚拟环境，在高风险情况下引起了影响。最后的身临其境 健康促进干预主义者可以将虚拟现实环境（在第二阶段完成）与HIV预防干预手册一起使用，作为引起影响并为青少年提供“现实世界”环境的一种手段，在该环境中，可以在其中练习与药物使用和艾滋病毒预防和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/布朗和几乎更好的Inc.的研究人员的合作来实现。该工具将代表实践和磨练的影响监管技能的重要进展，目前是通过角色扮演或 想象中的暴露是通过增加用于引起影响的线索的显着性，从而使其对干预主义者，学校和精神卫生临床医生的销售高度销售。