Somaratne Yasara Nayanthara, Collett James, De Foe Alexander
School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Monash University, 124 LaTrobe Street, 3000, Melbourne, Australia.
Heliyon. 2021 Sep 14;7(11):e07986. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07986. eCollection 2021 Nov.
This pilot study tested the utility of a virtual environment for assessing cognitive deficits characteristic of hoarding. A sample representing a broad spectrum of hoarding traits ( = 20) was assessed using self-report measures of information processing skills and emotional experience, and placed in a virtually simulated house that contained cluttered spaces and clean spaces. Information-processing significantly differed between high-hoarding and low-hoarding groups, with the high-hoarding group showing increased proneness to emotional attachment and information processing difficulties in the cluttered environment. The high-hoarding group also showed differences in behaviour and appraisal of the simulated environment. The findings suggested that virtual reality is accessible to participants and elicits real-time emotions and behavioural parameters which can assist our understanding of hoarding behaviour. Virtual reality may contribute to hoarding therapy in future, as it allows participants to visualise a different perspective of their condition and could contribute to their knowledge about the severity of their behaviour.
这项试点研究测试了虚拟环境在评估囤积症认知缺陷特征方面的效用。使用信息处理技能和情感体验的自我报告测量方法，对一个代表广泛囤积特征范围的样本（n = 20）进行了评估，并将其置于一个虚拟模拟的房屋中，该房屋包含杂乱的空间和整洁的空间。高囤积组和低囤积组在信息处理方面存在显著差异，高囤积组在杂乱环境中表现出更强的情感依恋倾向和信息处理困难。高囤积组在模拟环境中的行为和评价也存在差异。研究结果表明，虚拟现实对参与者来说是可行的，并且能够引发实时情绪和行为参数，这有助于我们理解囤积行为。虚拟现实未来可能有助于囤积症治疗，因为它能让参与者从不同角度看待自己的状况，并有助于他们了解自己行为的严重程度。
