Abstract
Virtual Reality (VR) has, for the past two decades, proven to be a useful adjunctive tool for both assessment and treatment of patients with eating disorders and obesity. VR allows an individual to enter scenarios that simulate real-life situations and to encounter food cues known to trigger his/her disordered eating behavior. As well, VR enables three-dimensional figures of the patient's body to be presented, helping him/her to reach an awareness of body image distortion and then providing the opportunity to confront and correct distortions, resulting in a more realistic body image and a decrease in body image dissatisfaction. In this paper, we describe seminal studies in this research area.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 67-73 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Social Psychology
- Communication
- Applied Psychology
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Science Applications
Keywords
- eating disorders
- obesity
- virtual reality
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