Clinical Implications
depressive, depression, anxiety
We wanted to determine how fetal images generated in VR can affect maternal-fetal bonding in pregnant women and investigated the possibility that they might lower maternal anxiety or depressive symptoms. This randomized controlled trial showed that there was a significantly greater increase in measured scores of maternal interaction with the fetus in the VR group than the control group. Additionally, although the difference did not reach statistical significance, about half the VR group showed an improvement in depressive-symptom test scores. Cranley [Although MFA could be considered an abstract concept, the association between MFA and postpartum depression has been previously studied. Rollè et al [