The Sandbox: VR iCBT for Children and Young People (CYP) in South Staffordshire

沙盒：南斯塔福德郡儿童和青少年 (CYP) 的 VR iCBT

• 批准号: 10055464
• 金额: $ 5.91万
• 依托单位: GET CEREBRAL LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10055464
• 关键词: Sandbox; VR; iCBT; Children; Young

The Sandbox: VR iCBT for Young People is a six-month feasibility study to establish if further research and investment are worthwhile in the creation of a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Young People aged 13-24 years.The increase in referrals to Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services has increased by 81% from 2019 to 2021, and there has been a 59% increase in urgent and crisis care referrals for children and young people during the same period. The NHS is seeking solutions to cope with this massive increase in demand.For some children and young people (CYP) a program of information and exercises which helps them to understand how they are feeling, and build their own resilience (CBT) is all they need to help them feel better. For others, CBT can be combined with one-to-one therapy. If the individual is neurodiverse (autism or other neurologically atypical patterns of thought or behaviour), the struggle to access mental health support is harder. There is usually a wait for a diagnosis of the neurodiverse condition as well as a wait for diagnosis and treatment of their mental health problem. This is further compounded by the individual's challenges in direct communication with others.At Cerebral, we provide NHS mental health services for CYP online, including internet-based CBT(iCBT). We assess individual mental health status and improvement through a widely-used and validated assessment tool, YP-CORE.Our iCBT has been very popular with CYP, especially those who are neurodiverse. Neurodiverse young people have been excited by the online exercises, completing them in rapid succession, and reviewing them when needed. We are seeing improvements in all young people's mental health which exceeds expected outcomes from standard services.We are hugely excited about the potential for Virtual Reality technology to tackle some of the biggest challenges in young people's mental health and transform lives for the better. By adapting our iCBT modules to be used through a VR headset the CYP is immersed in a virtual world, free of distractions, to focus on their exercises, improving their mental health, whilst having fun.We have already adapted one module of iCBT for VR, and want to test the practicality, cost, and acceptability of a potential program of VR iCBT with NHS stakeholders and young people.At the end of this project, we will have a decision about future development and an outline plan of how this would be done.

Sandbox：for for for for for for Sandbos是一项为期六个月的可行性研究从2019年到2021年，青春期的心理健康服务增长了81％，在同一时期，紧急和危机护理推荐的紧急和危机护理也增加了59％。 NHS正在寻求解决需求的解决方案。对于某些儿童和年轻人（CYP），一项信息和练习计划可以帮助他们了解自己的感受，并建立自己的韧性（CBT）就是他们的全部需要帮助他们感觉更好。对于其他人来说，CBT可以与一对一的治疗结合使用。如果个体是神经多样的（自闭症或其他神经学上非典型的思想或行为模式），那么寻求心理健康支持的努力就更加困难。通常需要等待诊断神经多样性状况，并等待诊断和治疗其心理健康问题。个人在与他人直接沟通方面的挑战进一步加剧了这一点。在大脑时，我们为CYP在线提供NHS心理健康服务，包括基于Internet的CBT（ICBT）。我们通过广泛使用且经过验证的评估工具来评估个人心理健康状况和改善，YP-core.our ICBT在CYP中非常受欢迎，尤其是那些神经多样的人。神经多样的年轻人对在线练习感到兴奋，迅速连续完成他们，并在需要时对其进行审查。我们看到所有年轻人的心理健康的改善，超过了标准服务的预期结果。我们对虚拟现实技术的潜力解决了应对年轻人心理健康中一些最大挑战的潜力，并改善了生活。通过调整我们的ICBT模块，通过VR耳机使用CYP浸入虚拟世界中，没有干扰，专注于他们的锻炼，改善他们的心理健康，同时享受乐趣。 ，并希望测试VR ICBT与NHS利益相关者和年轻人的实用性，成本和可接受性。在该项目的结尾，我们将决定未来的发展和概述计划完毕。