Promoting Social Participation and Recovery Using Virtual Reality-Based Interventions Among People With Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with mental health disorders (MHDs) and substance use disorders (SUDs) are a highly vulnerable group, particularly affected by social exclusion, marginalization, and disconnectedness. Virtual reality technology holds a potential for simulating social environments and interactions to mitigate the social barriers and marginalization faced by people recovering from MHDs and SUDs. However, it is still unclear how we can harness the greater ecological validity of virtual reality-based interventions targeting social and functional impairments in individuals with MHDs and SUDs.

Objective

The aim of this paper was to explore how service providers in community-based MHD and SUD health care services perceive the barriers to social participation among adults recoverin

SUBMITTER: Aasen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10176145 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature