How do people with persecutory delusions evaluate threat in a controlled social environment? A qualitative study using virtual reality

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...

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Autores: Fornells Ambrojo, Miriam, Freeman, Daniel, Slater, Mel, Swapp, David, Antley, Angus, Barker, Chris
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Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
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Palabra clave:Paranoia
Teràpia cognitiva
Realitat virtual
Cognitive therapy
Virtual reality
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spelling How do people with persecutory delusions evaluate threat in a controlled social environment? A qualitative study using virtual realityFornells Ambrojo, MiriamFreeman, DanielSlater, MelSwapp, DavidAntley, AngusBarker, ChrisParanoiaTeràpia cognitivaRealitat virtualParanoiaCognitive therapyVirtual realityEnvironmental 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 intentionCambridge University Press2015info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/114816Articles publicats en revistes (Psicologia Clínica i Psicobiologia)reponame:Dipòsit Digital de la UBinstname:Universidad de BarcelonaInglésReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465813000830Behavioural And Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2015, vol. 43, p. 1-19https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352465813000830(c) British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, 2015info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/1148162026-05-27T06:46:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv How do people with persecutory delusions evaluate threat in a controlled social environment? A qualitative study using virtual reality
title How do people with persecutory delusions evaluate threat in a controlled social environment? A qualitative study using virtual reality
spellingShingle How do people with persecutory delusions evaluate threat in a controlled social environment? A qualitative study using virtual reality
Fornells Ambrojo, Miriam
Paranoia
Teràpia cognitiva
Realitat virtual
Paranoia
Cognitive therapy
Virtual reality
title_short How do people with persecutory delusions evaluate threat in a controlled social environment? A qualitative study using virtual reality
title_full How do people with persecutory delusions evaluate threat in a controlled social environment? A qualitative study using virtual reality
title_fullStr How do people with persecutory delusions evaluate threat in a controlled social environment? A qualitative study using virtual reality
title_full_unstemmed How do people with persecutory delusions evaluate threat in a controlled social environment? A qualitative study using virtual reality
title_sort How do people with persecutory delusions evaluate threat in a controlled social environment? A qualitative study using virtual reality
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Fornells Ambrojo, Miriam
Freeman, Daniel
Slater, Mel
Swapp, David
Antley, Angus
Barker, Chris
author Fornells Ambrojo, Miriam
author_facet Fornells Ambrojo, Miriam
Freeman, Daniel
Slater, Mel
Swapp, David
Antley, Angus
Barker, Chris
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author2 Freeman, Daniel
Slater, Mel
Swapp, David
Antley, Angus
Barker, Chris
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Paranoia
Teràpia cognitiva
Realitat virtual
Paranoia
Cognitive therapy
Virtual reality
topic Paranoia
Teràpia cognitiva
Realitat virtual
Paranoia
Cognitive therapy
Virtual reality
description 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
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