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Immersive virtual reality or computerised mindfulness meditation for improving mood?
By Costina-Ruxandra Poetar
Mindfulness interventions effectively improve mood and reduce stress. This study compares the efficacy of immersive virtual reality-based mindfulness with computerised mindfulness meditation in a pilot trial, also examining potential simulator sickness effects on user engagement.
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Mindfulness interventions are effective in improving mood, reducing stress, and increasing quality of life. New developments in technology bring important channels to deliver mindfulness interventions that can increase accessibility, such as the Internet, computerised interventions, mobile apps and recently, virtual reality (VR).
The aim of the present study is to enhance our current understanding of the use of VR in mindfulness, namely we examined in a pilot randomised trial the efficacy of an immersive VR-based mindfulness approach compared to an active control (computerised-based mindfulness meditation) on improving mood.
A secondary objective was to examine whether VR use resulted in simulator sickness which could affect user engagement.
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