2.4. Measures
momentary disgust reactions
The following data were collected:Before VR exposureThe socio-demographic and clinical variables collected were age, gender, ethnicity, years of education, illness duration, self-reported weight, and height (used to calculate BMI as kg/mDuring VR exposureThe frequency of eye gazes towards and touching of virtual foods were automatically recorded in the VR environment by the software. The application used a narrow BoxCast, a rectangular ray fired along the Quest HDM’s After VR exposureAs a parameter reflecting state disgust, momentary disgust reactions towards pictures of high-calorie foods that were shown in the virtual kitchen were collected using a Likert scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 7 (extremely disgusted) with one question (“How disgusted do you feel now about eating high-calorie or palatable foods (e.g., pizza, chocolate, crisps)?”).For a summary of measures collected at different time points, see 