Extended Reality for Mental Health Evaluation: Scoping Review

作者：Olatunji Mumini Omisore, Ifeanyi Odenigbo, Joseph Orji, Amelia Itzel Hernandez Beltran, Sandra Meier, Nilufar Baghaei, Rita Orji · 发表于：JMIR Serious Games · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.2196/38413 · 被引用次数：18 · 研究领域：Digital Mental Health Interventions、Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts、Treatment of Major Depression

BACKGROUND: Mental health disorders are the leading cause of health-related problems worldwide. It is projected that mental health disorders will be the leading cause of morbidity among adults as the incidence rates of anxiety and depression grow worldwide. Recently, "extended reality" (XR), a general term covering virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), is paving the way for the delivery of mental health care. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate the adoption and implementation of XR technology used in interventions for mental disorders and to provide statistical analyses of the design, usage, and effectiveness of XR technology for mental health interventions with a worldwide demographic focus. METHODS: In this paper, we conducted a scoping review of the development and application of XR in the area of mental disorders. We performed a database search to identify relevant studies indexed in Google Scholar, PubMed, and the ACM Digital Library. A search period between August 2016 and December 2023 was defined to select papers related to the usage of VR, AR, and MR in a mental health context. The database search was performed with predefined queries, and a total of 831 papers were identified. Ten papers were identified through professional recommendation. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were designed and applied to ensure that only relevant studies were included in the literature review. RESULTS: We identified a total of 85 studies from 27 countries ...