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December 4, 2025Psychotherapy and PsychosomaticsOpen Access

An Automated Virtual Reality Cognitive-Behavioural Preventive Intervention for Adults with Agoraphobic Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Adapted gameChange in Hong Kong

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Overview

Randomized controlled trial shows VR intervention significantly decreases agoraphobic avoidance and anxiety in adults, suggesting a scalable treatment option.

Key Points

  • Automated VR intervention significantly reduced agoraphobic avoidance in adults after three sessions.
  • Participants showed mean reductions of 0.89 in agoraphobic avoidance and 1.0 in agoraphobic distress at three weeks.
  • Randomized controlled trial evaluated VR's efficacy against a waitlist control group with 272 adults.
  • Findings suggest VR may provide scalable treatment for agoraphobic symptoms in stigmatized populations.

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Adrian Chan (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6930e8b6ea1aef094cca2f59https://doi.org/10.1159/000549113
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