Virtual reality and mobile phones in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorders: A phase-2 clinical trial

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 253-260

  Repetto, Claudia ^a   Gaggioli, Andrea ^a,b   Pallavicini, Federica ^b,c   Cipresso, Pietro ^b   Raspelli, Simona ^b,c   Riva, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Generalized anxiety disorders; Mobile phones; Ubiquitous computing; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EXPOSURE SYSTEM; EXPOSURE THERAPY; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDERS; REAL-LIFE CONTEXTS; UBIQUITOUS APPROACH; VIRTUAL REALITY SYSTEM;

BIOFEEDBACK; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; EXPERIMENTS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; QUALITY CONTROL; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 84879687968     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-011-0467-0     Document Type: Article

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