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Reducing Social Avoidance Among Adolescents With Special Educational Needs
Sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to examine the effectiveness of a Virtual Reality (VR) social avoidance intervention in reducing social avoidance symptoms among adolescents with special educational needs. Participants will complete tasks in the VR scenario with increasing difficulty and learn that they can cope in situations that they previously avoid. We hypothesize that, comparing with usual care (i.e. waitlist control), the intervention group will experience a significant reduction on social avoidance symptoms after treatment and this benefit will persist till 1-month follow-up.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
16 Years - 19 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
208
Start Date
2024-06-20
Completion Date
2025-05-31
Last Updated
2024-06-10
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
VR Social Avoidance Intervention
The intervention is based on cognitive-behavioral approach with a virtual coach acting as the therapist. It will be designed in tandem with input from Hong Kong users to ensure the scenario can resonate with them. By testing beliefs that inhibit confidence in a safe and controlled environment, participants will complete tasks with increasing difficulty in three VR scenarios and learn that they can cope in situations that they previously avoid.
Locations (1)
Department of Applied Social Sciences, PolyU
Hong Kong, Hong Kong