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Virtual Reality as Support of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of Adults with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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The subject of this article is the use of virtual reality in psychological cognitive behavioral therapy of adults with post-traumatic stress disorder. A high percentage of adults suffers from this disorder during their lives. At the beginning of the paper, there is a theoretical description of virtual reality and explanation of post-traumatic stress disorder. The main paper’s part includes the research itself. The 6-month long research works with five adult respondents who suffer from anxiety disorders caused by traumatic events. The question of this paper is to find out if it is possible to speed up regular psychological cognitive behavioral therapy and reduce the use of pharmaceuticals with the help of virtual reality. The results of psychological tests after the treatment with the use of virtual reality are auspicious because there are verifiable decreases in depression and anxiety levels. Conclusion, evaluation, and discussion of the research are included.

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This study was funded by grant number IGA/CebiaTech/2019/003 from Internal Grant Agency of Tomas Bata University in Zlin.

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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of Tomas Bata University and national Czech research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

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  1. Faculty of Applied Informatics, Tomas Bata University, Nad Stranemi 4511, Zlin, 760 05, Czech Republic

    Ivan Kovar

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Missouri–St. Louis, Chesterfield, MO, USA

    Sanjiv K. Bhatia

  2. Computer Science Engineering Department, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Shailesh Tiwari

  3. Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Pudong, China

    Su Ruidan

  4. National Institute of Technology Agartala, Agartala, Tripura, India

    Munesh Chandra Trivedi

  5. Computer Science Engineering Department, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

    K. K. Mishra

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Kovar, I. (2021). Virtual Reality as Support of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of Adults with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In: Bhatia, S.K., Tiwari, S., Ruidan, S., Trivedi, M.C., Mishra, K.K. (eds) Advances in Computer, Communication and Computational Sciences. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1158. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4409-5_82

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