An exploratory study of specific biomarkers of social anxiety patients using the metaverse

An exploratory study of specific biomarkers of social anxiety patients using the metaverse - Exploratory study of social anxiety disorder using metaverse

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000049772

Enrollment

100

Registered

2022-12-14

Start date

2022-12-20

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-29

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Conditions

general anxiety disorder

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Social anxiety disorder 1 Age between 18 and 59 years old at the time of obtaining consent 2 Those who have communication skills in Japanese 3 Patients who have been diagnosed with SAD according to the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and are currently undergoing treatment or planning to start treatment 4 Those who have given written consent of the research subject's own free will after receiving a sufficient explanation regarding participation in this research. Health control Those that satisfy 1, 2, and 4 above

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Social anxiety disorder 1 When other mental illnesses (without adjustment disorder, depression, persistent depressive disorder) are observed 2 When the patient's life is in dangerous situation due to severe mental states and we judge it difficult to continue the test 3 Those from who we cannot obtain voice data 4 Head Mount Display- Virtual Reality: Those who cannot use HMD-VR 5 In addition, those who the research director judges to be inappropriate as research subjects Health control 1 When other mental illnesses (depression, etc.) are observed 2 When the patient's life is in dangerous situation due to severe mental states and we judge it difficult to continue the test 3 Those from who we cannot obtain voice data 4 Head Mount Display- Virtual Reality: Those who cannot use HMD-VR 5 In addition, those who the research director judges to be inappropriate as research subjects

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Subject's LSAS score (severity score) Subject's TSAS score (severity score) Subject's TSAI score Subject's FNE (fear scale of negative evaluation from others) Subject's VAS (Stress Scale) SPS for VR-TSST Subject's DSM-5 diagnosis result Speech characteristics of the subject Subject's eye movement data: number of blinks, pupil meridian, distance traveled by line of sight Heart rate, heart rate variability Blood oxygen saturation saliva	—

Measure

Time frame

Subject's LSAS score (severity score) Subject's TSAS score (severity score) Subject's TSAI score Subject's FNE (fear scale of negative evaluation from others) Subject's VAS (Stress Scale) SPS for VR-TSST Subject's DSM-5 diagnosis result Speech characteristics of the subject Subject's eye movement data: number of blinks, pupil meridian, distance traveled by line of sight Heart rate, heart rate variability Blood oxygen saturation saliva

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Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactYohei Obata

Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine Department of Psychiatry

y.obata.cd@juntendo.ac.jp03-3813-3111

Outcome results