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Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2023

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

Bidragsytere:
  • Jan Aasen
  • Kari Galaaen
  • Fredrik Nilsson
  • Torgeir Sørensen
  • Lars Lien og
  • Marja Leonhardt

Tidsskrift

JMIR Formative Research
ISSN 2561-326X
e-ISSN 2561-326X
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2023
Publisert online: 2023
Volum: 7
Artikkelnummer: e46136
Open Access

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Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85154587049

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Tittel

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

Sammendrag

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 recovering from MHDs and SUDs to provide a broader understanding of how learning experiences can be modeled to promote social participation in virtual reality environments. Methods: Two semistructured, open-ended, and dual-moderator focus group interviews were conducted with participants representing different community-based MHD and SUD health care services. Service providers were recruited from their MHD and SUD services in our collaborating municipality in Eastern Norway. We recruited the first participant group at a municipal MHD and SUD assisted living facility for service users with ongoing excessive substance use and severe social dysfunctionality. We recruited the second participant group at a community-based follow-up care service aimed at clients with a broad range of MHDs and SUDs and various levels of social functioning. The qualitative data extracted in the interviews were analyzed, using reflexive thematic analysis. Results: The analysis of the service providers' perceptions of the barriers to social participation among clients with MHDs and SUDs revealed the following five main themes: challenging or lacking social connections, impaired cognitive functions, negative self-perception, impaired personal functioning, and insufficient social security. The barriers identified are interrelated in a cluster of cognitive, socioemotional, and functional impairments, leading to a severe and diverse complex of barriers to social participation. Conclusions: Social participation relies on people's capability to use their present social opportunities. Promoting basic human functioning is key to promoting social participation among people with MHDs and SUDs. The findings in this study indicate a need to address cognitive functioning, socioemotional learning, instrumental skills, and complex social functions to meet the complexity and diversity of the identified barriers to social functioning in our target group. Virtual reality-based interventions for promoting social participation should be sequenced into distinct scenarios dedicated to specific learning goals to build complex learning in a step-by-step process based on successively more complex levels of human and social functioning. Keywords: MHD; SUD; VRI; mental health disorders and substance use disorders; qualitative study; recovery; reflexive thematic analysis; social functioning impairments; social participation; virtual reality–based interventions. ©Jan Aasen, Kari Galaaen, Fredrik Nilsson, Torgeir Sørensen, Lars Lien, Marja Leonhardt. Originally published in JMIR Formative Research (https://formative.jmir.org), 27.04.2023.

Bidragsytere

Jan Aasen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Div Psykisk helsevern ved Sykehuset Innlandet HF
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Senter for diakoni og profesjonell praksis ved VID vitenskapelige høgskole

Kari Galaaen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Fakultet for sosialvitenskap ved VID vitenskapelige høgskole

Fredrik Nilsson

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Oslo kommune

Torgeir Sørensen

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Senter for diakoni og profesjonell praksis ved VID vitenskapelige høgskole
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Lars Lien

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Div Psykisk helsevern ved Sykehuset Innlandet HF
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Institutt for folkehelse- og idrettsvitenskap ved Høgskolen i Innlandet
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