One-Session Versus Three-Sessions of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Public Speaking Anxiety: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Goda Gegieckaitė   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Olga Zamalijeva   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Karolina Petraškaitė   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Egle Nagevice   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Philip Lindner   ^{3, 4 *} , PhD ;   Per Carlbring   ^{5, 6 *} , PhD ;   Tom Van Daele   ^{7, 8 *} , PhD ;   Gerhard Andersson   ^{9, 10, 11 *} , PhD ;   Jonas Eimontas   ^{1 *} , PhD

¹ Department of Clinical Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

² Laboratory of Applied Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

³ Centre for Psychiatry Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

⁴ Stockholm Health Care Services, Stockholm, Sweden

⁵ Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

⁶ School of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁷ Psychology and Technology, Centre of Expertise Care and Well-being, Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, Antwerp, Belgium

⁸ Centre for Technological Innovation, Mental Health and Education, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

⁹ Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

¹⁰ Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

¹¹ Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

*all authors contributed equally