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How do people with persecutory delusions evaluate threat in a controlled social environment? A qualitative study using virtual reality
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Autor/a:
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Fornells Ambrojo, Miriam; Freeman, Daniel; Slater, Mel; Swapp, David; Antley, Angus; Barker, Chris
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Otros autores:
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Universitat de Barcelona |
Abstract:
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Environmental factors have been associated with psychosis but there is little qualitative research looking at how the ongoing interaction between individual and environment maintains psychotic symptoms. Aims: The current study investigates how people with persecutory delusions interpret events in a virtual neutral social environment using qualitative methodology. Method: 20 participants with persecutory delusions and 20 controls entered a virtual underground train containing neutral characters. Under these circumstances, people with persecutory delusions reported similar levels of paranoia as non-clinical participants. The transcripts of a post-virtual reality interview of the first 10 participants in each group were analysed. Results: Thematic analyses of interviews focusing on the decision making process associated with attributing intentions of computer-generated characters revealed 11 themes grouped in 3 main categories (evidence in favour of paranoid appraisals, evidence against paranoid appraisals, other behaviour). Conclusions: People with current persecutory delusions are able to use a range of similar strategies to healthy volunteers when making judgements about potential threat in a neutral environment that does not elicit anxiety, but they are less likely than controls to engage in active hypothesis-testing and instead favour experiencing 'affect' as evidence of persecutory intention |
Materia(s):
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-Paranoia -Teràpia cognitiva -Realitat virtual -Paranoia -Cognitive therapy -Virtual reality |
Derechos:
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(c) British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, 2015
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Tipo de documento:
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Artículo Artículo - Versión publicada |
Editor:
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Cambridge University Press
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