Adolescent Responses to Varying Environments in Virtual Reality Simulations : Adolescent Responses to Varying Environments in Virtual Reality Simulations (THRIVE: The Research In Virtual Environments Study)

The objective of this study, named THRIVE (The Research In Virtual Environments Study), is to test hypotheses for how neighborhood environments influence stress and emotion, as a mechanism by which they may influence health. Neighborhood environments may have both acute influences on stress-related processes, but also may have lifespan effects due to the chronic, cumulative effects of repeated exposures and the long-term toll of adapting to adverse neighborhood environments. However, assessing neighborhood influences on stress and emotion is methodologically challenging. This study develops such a novel, alternative approach to address these questions by deploying a virtual reality (VR) based model of neighborhood disadvantage and affluence that creates an immersive experience approximating the experience of being in different neighborhoods. In this study, this model will be applied to understand neighborhood effects in a diverse sample of adolescents (n = 130) from a range of disadvantaged and affluent neighborhoods. The proposed study will employ a randomized experiment (n = 65 per condition), with online questionnaires and a single study session, to determine (a) if virtual exposure to neighborhood disadvantage elicits differences in emotion and stress reactivity; (2) if growing up in a disadvantaged neighborhood results in habituation or sensitization to different neighborhood characteristics; and (3) if chronic stress results in habituation or sensitization to different neighborhood characteristics. This research will develop an innovative methodology that will help establish the role that neighborhoods may play in eliciting stress as well as the processes of adaptation to chronic stress and chronic neighborhood exposures. In addition, it will help establish a method that can be utilized more broadly to study contextual and social environmental influences on psychological and biological risk in adolescence..

Medienart:	Klinische Studie

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Erschienen:	2023

Enthalten in:	ClinicalTrials.gov - (2023) vom: 13. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:	Englisch

Links:	Volltext [kostenfrei]

Themen:	610 Recruitment Status: Completed Stress, Psychological Study Type: Interventional

Anmerkungen:	Source: Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record., First posted: July 10, 2020, Last downloaded: ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on November 22, 2023, Last updated: November 22, 2023

Study ID:	NCT04465240 262625 1R21HD099596-01 UP-19-00205
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PPN (Katalog-ID):	CTG003450864