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Title: | The way we look at our own body really matters! Body-related attentional bias as a predictor of worse clinical outcomes after a virtual reality body exposure therapy |
Author: | Ferrer, Marta (Ferrer García) Porras-García, Bruno Miquel, Helena Serrano Troncoso, Eduardo Carulla-Roig, Marta Gutiérrez Maldonado, José |
Keywords: | Anorèxia nerviosa Trastorns de la conducta alimentària Realitat virtual Anorexia nervosa Eating disorders Virtual reality |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publisher: | Interactive Media Institute |
Abstract: | Body-related attentional bias (AB) experienced by anorexia nervosa (AN) patients has been associated with body image disturbances and other eating disorders (ED)-related symptoms. The aim of this study was to assess whether the body-related AB reported by AN patients before a virtual reality (VR)-based body exposure therapy predicted worse clinical outcomes after treatment. Thirteen AN outpatients participatedin the study. AB was recorded using an eye-tracker incorporated in a VR-Head Mounted Display. Results showed that AN patients attended to their weight-related body parts for longer and more frequently than to their non-weight-related body parts. Statistically significant (p<.05) negative and positive correlations between pre-intervention bodyrelated AB measures and the difference between pre- and post-assessment fear of gaining weight, body dissatisfaction, and body appreciation measures were also found. Showing higher body-related AB before the intervention marginally predicted a lower reduction of fear of gaining weight (p =.08 and p=.07) and body dissatisfaction (p = .05 and p=.06) at post-treatment, and significantly predicted a lower increase of body appreciation scores after the intervention (p<.001). Results suggest that body-related AB may reduce the efficacy of VR-based body exposure therapy in patients with AN |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://www.arctt.info/volume-19-summer-2021 |
It is part of: | Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine, 2021, vol. 19, p. 99-104 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/209391 |
ISSN: | 1554-8716 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Psicologia Clínica i Psicobiologia) |
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