Virtual reality (VR) technology is a promising platform to be included in obesity therapy as it provides a safe environment for learner experimentation, real-time personalized behavioral weight management tasks, and strategies. Moreover, it is able to target negative emotions and body image dissatisfaction that play a critical role in the onset and maintenance of this disorder. Finally, it has the potential of improving treatment adherence, addressing a critical issue to achieve successful weight loss and weight maintenance. As such, VR can be considered an integrated experiential platform able to engage obese individuals in mastering physical activity, diet, and self-regulatory strategies—targeting both emotions and experience of the body—that are the gateway to weight management and obesity prevention.
Riva, G., Malighetti, C., Chirico, A., Di Lernia, D., Mantovani, F., Dakanalis, A. (2020). Virtual Reality [in obesity rehabilitation interventions]. In P. Capodaglio (a cura di), Rehabilitation Interventions in the Patient with Obesity (pp. 189-204). Springer [10.1007/978-3-030-32274-8_12].
Virtual Reality [in obesity rehabilitation interventions]
Mantovani, F;Dakanalis, A
2020
Abstract
Virtual reality (VR) technology is a promising platform to be included in obesity therapy as it provides a safe environment for learner experimentation, real-time personalized behavioral weight management tasks, and strategies. Moreover, it is able to target negative emotions and body image dissatisfaction that play a critical role in the onset and maintenance of this disorder. Finally, it has the potential of improving treatment adherence, addressing a critical issue to achieve successful weight loss and weight maintenance. As such, VR can be considered an integrated experiential platform able to engage obese individuals in mastering physical activity, diet, and self-regulatory strategies—targeting both emotions and experience of the body—that are the gateway to weight management and obesity prevention.
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