Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2022 Sep 29:13:895196.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.895196. eCollection 2022.

Influence of science education on mental health of adolescents based on virtual reality

Bo Wu  1   2 , Changlong Zheng  1 , Benjamin Huang  3
Affiliations

Influence of science education on mental health of adolescents based on virtual reality

Bo Wu et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

This work is developed to explore the form of mental health education, strengthen scientific educational ideas, and improve the effect of psychological therapy. Virtual reality (VR) technology is innovatively applied in adolescent mental health treatment and education. Based on this, the mental health treatment and system design based on virtual reality technology are discussed, and the feasibility of applying VR technology to adolescent mental health education is explored. Second, the research concept of adolescent mental health is discussed. Based on the VR platform setup, questionnaire survey is implemented to analyze the factors influencing the mental health of primary and secondary school students in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province (the permission of the adolescent guardian is obtained during the interview), and five factors are obtained. Based on this, the adolescent mental health treatment system based on VR is designed, and the effectiveness of the system is tested and evaluated. The results show that the integrated delay of the VR equipment used is 29 ms, which can effectively provide service. There are significant differences in mental health status among adolescents of different genders, different ages, only children and non-only children, parents' accompaniment during growing up, and urban and rural adolescents. Finally, after 3 months of psychological treatment, the mental health score of the experimental group of teenagers is 50-55 points. However, the mental health scores of the control group remain at 56-65 points, indicating that the mental health treatment system designed in this work can effectively help the adolescents to improve their mental health, thus proving the effectiveness of the system. To sum up, this work provides scientific reference for adolescent mental health education in schools. Psychological treatment system can help teenagers improve their psychological problems and promote the development of mental health education.

Keywords: VR; influencing factors; mental health; teenagers; treatment system.

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Figures

FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
VR adoption scenarios.
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Structure chart of adolescent psychotherapy system.
FIGURE 3
FIGURE 3
Standards for mental health of adolescents.
FIGURE 4
FIGURE 4
VFW video capture process.
FIGURE 5
FIGURE 5
VFW driver loading process.
FIGURE 6
FIGURE 6
Video composition diagram.
FIGURE 7
FIGURE 7
Image synthesis process.
FIGURE 8
FIGURE 8
Basic performance testing status of VR equipment.
FIGURE 9
FIGURE 9
Comparison of mental health status of adolescents with different genders. (A) Demographic information; (B) mental health status of adolescents by gender.
FIGURE 10
FIGURE 10
Statistical inference analysis of influencing factors of mental health of adolescents. (A) Standardized direct utility; (B) standardized indirect utility.
FIGURE 11
FIGURE 11
Pre-experiment mental health assessment of 40 adolescent subjects. (A) The experimental group; (B) the control group.
FIGURE 12
FIGURE 12
Mental health outcomes of the experimental group in the first month of therapy. (A) First month mental health assessment results; (B) the mental health changes in experimental group member 1.
FIGURE 13
FIGURE 13
Mental health outcomes of the experimental group in the second month of therapy. (A) Second month mental health assessment results; (B) the mental health changes of experimental group member 5.
FIGURE 14
FIGURE 14
Mental health outcomes of the experimental group in the third month of therapy. (A) Third month mental health assessment results; (B) The mental health changes of experimental group member 10.
FIGURE 15
FIGURE 15
Mental health evaluation results of the control group after 3 months. (A) Control group member 1; (B) control group member 6.
FIGURE 16
FIGURE 16
Mental health evaluation results of the control group after 3 months. (A) Control group member 10; (B) Control group member 12.
FIGURE 17
FIGURE 17
Mental health evaluation results of the control group after 3 months. (A) Control group member 15; (B) control group member 20.
FIGURE 18
FIGURE 18
Comparison of mental health evaluation results between experimental group and control group. (A) LA, SP, LT, and SA; (B) ST, PS, TT, and IT.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

Similar articles

See all similar articles

Cited by

References

    1. Abbas A., Choi M., Seo J. O., Cha S. H., Li H. (2020). Erratum to: Effectiveness of immersive virtual reality-based communication for construction projects. KSCE J. Civil Eng. 24 691–692. 10.1007/s12205-020-6898-2 - DOI
    1. Abich J., Parker J., Murphy J. S., Eudy M. (2021). A review of the evidence for training effectiveness with virtual reality technology. Virtual Real. 25 919–933. 10.1007/s10055-020-00498-8 - DOI
    1. D’Errico M. (2021). Immersive virtual reality as an international collaborative space for innovative simulation design. Clin. Simul. Nurs. 54 30–34. 10.1016/j.ecns.2021.01.005 - DOI
    1. Desselle M. R., Brown R. A., James A. R., Midwinter M. J., Woodruff M. A. (2020). Augmented and virtual reality in surgery. Comput. Sci. Eng. 22, 18–26. 10.1109/MCSE.2020.2972822 - DOI
    1. Eiris R., Gheisari M., Esmaeili B. (2020). Desktop-based safety training using 360-degree panorama and static virtual reality techniques: A comparative experimental study. Autom. Construct. 109:102969. 10.1016/j.autcon.2019.102969 - DOI

LinkOut - more resources