Diaphragmatic breathing during virtual reality exposure therapy for aviophobia: functional coping strategy or avoidance behavior? a pilot study
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- 作者：Youssef Shiban ; Julia Diemer ; Jana Müller ; Johanna Brütting-Schick…
- 关键词：Virtual reality ; Exposure therapy ; Diaphragmatic breathing ; Aviophobia ; Experimental study
- 刊名：BMC Psychiatry
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：526KB
- 刊物主题：Psychiatry; Psychotherapy;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-244X
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundAlthough there is solid evidence for the efficacy of in vivo and virtual reality (VR) exposure therapy for a specific phobia, there is a significant debate over whether techniques promoting distraction or relaxation have impairing or enhancing effects on treatment outcome. In the present pilot study, we investigated the effect of diaphragmatic breathing (DB) as a relaxation technique during VR exposure treatment.