论文标题
心理健康评估的扩展现实 - 范围审查
Extended Reality for Mental Health Evaluation -A Scoping Review
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论文摘要
心理健康障碍是全球与健康有关的主要原因。预计随着焦虑和抑郁症的发生率在全球范围内增长，精神健康障碍将是成年人发病率的主要原因。最近，扩展现实（XR）是涵盖虚拟现实（VR），增强现实（AR）和混合现实（MR）的一般术语，正在铺平一种提供心理保健的新方法。在本文中，我们对XR在精神障碍领域的开发和应用进行了范围审查。我们进行了范围的数据库搜索，以确定Google Scholar，PubMed和ACM数字图书馆中索引的相关研究。在2016年8月至2023年12月之间的搜索期被定义为在心理健康环境中选择与VR，AR和MR使用相关的文章。我们确定了来自全球27个国家的85项研究。通过进行数据分析，我们发现大多数研究集中在美国（16.47％）和德国（12.94％）等发达国家。这些研究都不是针对非洲国家的。大多数文章报告说，XR技术导致焦虑或抑郁症状的显着减轻。更多的研究在2021年发表，即31.76％（n = 31）。这可能表明，当Covid-19出现时，精神障碍干预受到了更高的关注。大多数研究（n = 65）集中在18至65岁之间的人群上，只有少数研究集中于青少年（n = 2）。同样，进行了更多的研究（n = 67，78.82％），而不是通过分析和建模方法（n = 8，9.41％）进行。这表明XR技术正在快速发展用于精神卫生保健。此外，这些研究表明，XR技术可以有效地用于以与常规方法相似或更好的方式评估精神障碍。
Mental health disorders are the leading cause of health-related problems globally. It is projected that mental health disorders will be the leading cause of morbidity among adults as the incidence rates of anxiety and depression grows globally. Recently, extended reality (XR), a general term covering virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR), is paving a new way to deliver mental health care. In this paper, we conduct a scoping review on the development and application of XR in the area of mental disorders. We performed a scoping database search to identify the relevant studies indexed in Google Scholar, PubMed, and the ACM Digital Library. A search period between August 2016 and December 2023 was defined to select articles related to the usage of VR, AR, and MR in a mental health context. We identified a total of 85 studies from 27 countries across the globe. By performing data analysis, we found that most of the studies focused on developed countries such as the US (16.47%) and Germany (12.94%). None of the studies were for African countries. The majority of the articles reported that XR techniques led to a significant reduction in symptoms of anxiety or depression. More studies were published in the year 2021, i.e., 31.76% (n = 31). This could indicate that mental disorder intervention received a higher attention when COVID-19 emerged. Most studies (n = 65) focused on a population between 18 and 65 years old, only a few studies focused on teenagers (n = 2). Also, more studies were done experimentally (n = 67, 78.82%) rather than by analytical and modeling approaches (n = 8, 9.41%). This shows that there is a rapid development of XR technology for mental health care. Furthermore, these studies showed that XR technology can effectively be used for evaluating mental disorders in similar or better way as the conventional approaches.
