An Immersive Virtual Reality Peer Support Application for Individuals with Opioid Use Disorder: Development and Initial Evaluation

针对阿片类药物使用障碍患者的沉浸式虚拟现实同伴支持应用程序：开发和初步评估

• 批准号: 10011746
• 负责人: STEVEN DENNIS HOLLON
• 金额: $ 20.67万
• 依托单位: VERY REAL HELP, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10011746
• 关键词: Abstinence; Address; Affect; Affective; Agonist; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; American; Area; Behavior Therapy; Buprenorphine; Caring; Cause of Death; Communities; Computer software; Data; Development; Disease remission; Environment; Evaluation; Event; Feedback; Focus Groups; Frequencies; Goals; Grant; Home environment; Immersion; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Lead; Learning; Measures; Metadata; Methadone; Mind; Modeling; Moods; Motivation; Opioid; Outcome; Overdose; Patient Recruitments; Patients; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Positioning Attribute; Public Health; Randomized; Recovery; Relapse; Research; Schedule; Services; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Social Network; Social support; Socialization; Standardization; Substance Use Disorder; Supportive care; System; Technology; Testing; Time; Training; United States; base; care systems; combat; control trial; cost; craving; digital; disorder prevention; effective intervention; effective therapy; efficacy testing; experience; improved; medication-assisted treatment; meetings; negative affect; novel; opioid epidemic; opioid use disorder; patient engagement; peer; peer support; prevent; programs; psychoeducation; psychosocial; recruit; relapse risk; self help; social; substance abuse treatment; treatment program; usability; virtual; virtual environment; virtual reality; virtual reality environment; virtual reality intervention

PROJECT SUMMARY Drug overdoses are the leading cause of death in the United States with approximately 72,000 people dying from drug overdose in 2017. Many of these fatalities occurred in individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD), which is one of the greatest public health issues confronting the United States today. Digital Recovery Support Services (DRSs) that include peer support, psychoeducation, and other continuing care services, have the potential to circumvent many of the limitations attendant with agonist medication treatment and traditional psychosocial interventions for OUD. DRSs are highly accessible and provide continuous access to peer support to influence recovery outcomes by helping individuals break ties to pro-substance-use peers and establish ties to pro-recovery-peers. The goal of the proposed project is to explore the feasibility of a new type of immersive Digital Recovery Support Service that delivers live, synchronous peer-based social support in virtual reality (VR) for individuals with Opioid Use Disorder. This project will involve two primary aims: (1) to develop a minimum viable product through initial acceptance and usability testing with 30 OUD patients receiving medication assisted treatment, and (2) to assess the impact of the intervention on patient mood and perceived social support. This new type of VR application may help individuals at home during moments of relapse risk, allowing them to “leave” (in their own minds) a potentially challenging or triggering environment and instead become immersed in a recovery-focused social world. If effective, this intervention could help to combat the opioid crisis and save the lives of thousands of Americans.

项目摘要 药物过量是美国的主要死亡原因，大约有72,000人死亡 从2017年的药物过量。这些死亡发生在阿片类药物使用障碍（OUD）的个体中， 这是当今美国面临的最伟大的公共卫生问题之一。数字恢复支持 包括同伴支持，心理教育和其他持续护理服务在内的服务（DRSS）具有 通过激动剂药物治疗和传统的许多限制来规避许多限制 OUD的社会心理干预措施。 DRS高度可访问，可连续访问同伴 通过帮助个人与亲使用的同龄人打破联系，以影响恢复结果 与亲探索者建立联系。拟议项目的目的是探索新的 提供现场同步同行社交现场直播的沉浸式数字恢复支持服务 在虚拟现实（VR）中为阿片类药物使用障碍的个体提供支持。这个项目将涉及两个 主要目的：（1）通过30 OUD接受药物辅助治疗的患者，以及（2）评估干预措施对 病人的情绪和感知的社会支持。这种新型的VR应用程序可以帮助个人在家 在救济风险的时刻，让他们“离开”（在自己的脑海中）一个潜在的挑战或 触发环境，而是沉浸在以恢复为重点的社会世界中。如果有效，这 干预可以帮助打击阿片类药物危机并挽救成千上万美国人的生命。