飛行機搭乗恐怖症治療のための曝露用簡易型VRシステムの評価

抄録

Flying phobia is one of the well known phobias. In-vivo and virtual reality exposure is one of the effective therapies for flying phobia. But these exposure therapies have some problems such as a loss of confidentiality, a lack of controllability, needs of long time, and high expense. To resolve these problems, we developed a new light type of virtual reality system exposing patients into inside of flying airplane. Our purpose of this study is to confirm that there are no medical side effect by use of this new system and to evaluate usability and difficulty of the system before using on clinical case. Ten participants who was not flying phobia experienced the system. We evaluated the system by checking blood pressure and pulse rate of the participants, and by questionnaires written by the participants. It was confirmed that there were no medical side effects by use of the system, and we evaluated that the system would be useful enough.