Virtual Reality–Based Treatment for Military Members and Veterans With Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Protocol for a Multimodular Motion-Assisted Memory Desensitization and Reconsolidation Randomized Controlled Trial

Chelsea Jones   ¹ , MSc ;   Lorraine Smith-MacDonald   ¹ , PhD ;   Antonio Miguel-Cruz   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Ashley Pike   ¹ , PhD ;   Marieke van Gelderen   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Liana Lentz   ⁶ , PhD ;   Maria Y Shiu   ⁷ , MSc ;   Emily Tang   ¹ , BSc ;   Jeffrey Sawalha   ⁸ , MSc ;   Andrew Greenshaw   ⁸ , PhD ;   Shawn G Rhind   ⁷ , PhD ;   Xin Fang   ⁹ , PhD ;   Adrian Norbash   ¹⁰ , MD, CCFP, FRCP ;   Rakesh Jetly   ¹¹ , PhD, FRCP, MD ;   Eric Vermetten   ^{5, 12, 13} , MD, PhD ;   Suzette Brémault-Phillips   ^{1, 2} , PhD

¹ Heroes in Mind, Advocacy and Research Consortium, Faculty of Rehabilitation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

² Department of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

³ Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Research Innovation and Technology (GRRIT), Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada

⁴ ARQ Centrum’45, Diemen, The Netherlands

⁵ Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

⁶ School of Health Studies, Western University, London, ON, Canada

⁷ Defence Research and Development Canada, Toronto Research Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁸ Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

⁹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

¹⁰ Canadian Forces Health Services, Department of National Defense, Edmonton, AB, Canada

¹¹ Department of Mental Health, Canadian Forces Health Services, Department of National Defense, Ottawa, ON, Canada

¹² Military Mental Health Research, Ministry of Defense, Utrecht, The Netherlands

¹³ ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre, Deimen, The Netherlands