F40.2
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Adults aged 18 to 65 years with a diagnosis of specific phobia, spider type, established using the Mini-DIPS diagnostic interview. Participants undergo an online screening to assess eligibili
Sponsors
Hochschule Reutlingen
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Adequate German language skills to provide informed consent and understand all study instructions and questionnaires.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Neurological disorders Cardiovascular diseases Uncorrected visual impairments Intolerance to virtual reality applications (VR intolerance/cybersickness) Pregnancy Acute suicidality Psychotic symptoms or psychotic disorders High dissociative tendency Substance abuse Bipolar disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Current use of psychotropic medication
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Classification performance (F1-score) of an AI model pre-trained on publicly available datasets of physiological fear responses (including the SpiderPhy dataset) and a randomly selected subset of data collected within the present study for distinguishing individuals with and without a Mini-DIPS-confirmed diagnosis of spider phobia. Model performance will be evaluated on the remaining independent test dataset, which is not used during model training. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Identification of potential predictors of response to VR-based exposure through exploratory analyses of demographic, psychological, and physiological variables. Treatment response will be operationalized as changes in spider-phobia-related questionnaire scores and Behavioral Avoidance Test (BAT) performance between pre- and post-assessment. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactYoussef Shiban
PFH Private Hochschule Göttingen
Outcome results
None listed