The treatment of fear of flying: A controlled study of imaginal and virtual reality graded exposure therapy

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3 SPEC., 2002, Pages 218-223

  Wiederhold, Brenda K ^a   Jang, Dong P ^b   Gevirtz, Richard G ^a   Kim, Sun I ^b   Kim, In Y ^b   Wiederhold, Mark D ^a  

^a VIRTUAL REALITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Flying; Phobias; Therapy; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FLYING PHOBIA; IMAGINAL EXPOSURE THERAPY; VIRTUAL REALITY GRADED EXPOSURE THERAPY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESENSITIZATION, PSYCHOLOGIC; FEAR; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MIDDLE AGED; PHOBIC DISORDERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0036708414     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2002.802378     Document Type: Article

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