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Usability and Feasibility of a Contrast Avoidance Model-Based Virtual Reality Protocol Designed for Generalized Anxiety Disorder

2026-04-29

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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by persistent, excessive, and difficult-to-control worry. The Contrast Avoidance Model (CAM) proposes that individuals with GAD use worry to sustain negative emotional arousal, thereby avoiding sharp negative emotional contrasts that would otherwise follow unexpected adverse events. A virtual reality (VR) protocol was developed to simulate such contrasts by alter...

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Literature Corpus work: a88b0391-55ca-5679-a715-09c8d52eb6b0
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202604.1983.v1

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