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Effects of Semantically Irrelevant Virtual Reality Experience on Memory and Emotion

NCT07393776 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 156

Last updated 2026-02-06

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Summary

First responders at the Federal, State and local level are those on the front lines of providing support to their communities during an emergency or a disaster. Their work domains are emergency public security, firefighting, law enforcement, emergency response, and emergency medical care. Due to the inherent characteristics of the jobs they perform, they are constantly exposed to very stressful, demanding and dangerous work environments. Such an exposure often leads to mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). More than 80 percent of first responders experience traumatic events on their job duty. Various efforts to treat about trauma have been made to address the first responders' mental health. However, existing interventions are not directly targeted at the causes of mental health problems, which is the memory of the adverse events. The objective the proposed research is to investigate the effect of immersive virtual reality (VR) experience on the memory of an adverse event (e.g., fire).

Conditions

  • Intervention Group
  • Comparison Group
  • Control Group

Interventions

OTHER

Watching VR video

Participants watch 360-degree VR video of underwater diving 5 minutes after they watched the fire video.

OTHER

Reading text

Participants read text paragraphs regarding underwater diving 5 minutes after they watched the fire video.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Texas Tech University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Changwon Son, PhD · Texas Tech University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-06-27
Primary Completion
2023-09-08
Completion
2023-09-08

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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