Treatment of body image in eating disorders through cognitive-behavioral treatment supported by virtual reality: results of one-year follow-up

The present paper aims to showing the follow-up data, one year after treatment completion. Measures of body image, eating disorders, and general psychopathology were assessed. Comparisons were made among pre-treatment, post-treatment, 6- and 12-month follow-up measures. Results at post-treatment were not only maintained at one-year follow-up, but also the improvement continued along that period. The combination of cognitive-behavioral treatment and VR empowers the results of the standard BI treatment, and the improvement continues along one year after treatment. Such improvement was not only circumscribed to the treatment target (BI disturbances), but was extended to eating disorder and general psychopathology, in spite of not being specific goals of the therapeutic intervention.