Mental health in the virtual world: Challenges and opportunities in the metaverse era

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World J Clin Cases. Jun 16, 2024; 12(17): 2939-2945
Published online Jun 16, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i17.2939

Mental health in the virtual world: Challenges and opportunities in the metaverse era

Yolanda López del Hoyo, Matilde Elices, Javier Garcia-Campayo

Yolanda López del Hoyo, Department of Psychology and Sociology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50009, Spain

Matilde Elices, Mental Health Research Group, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Barcelona 08003, Spain

Javier Garcia-Campayo, Department of Psychiatry, Miguel Servet Hospital, Aragon Institute for Health Research, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza 50009, Spain

Author contributions: López del Hoyo Y and García-Campayo J conceived the idea for the manuscript; López del Hoyo Y, Elices M, and García-Campayo J reviewed the literature and drafted the manuscript.

Supported by Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), with group funds the Research Network on Chronicity, Primary Care and Health Promotion (RICAPPS, RD21/0016/0005) that is part of the Results-Oriented Cooperative Research Networks in Health (RICORS) (Carlos III Health Institute), co-funded by the European Union “NextGeneration EU/PRTR” funds and with group funds Mental health research group in Primary Care (B17_23R), which is part of the Department of Innovation, Research, and University in the Government of Aragón (Spain).

Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare having no conflicts of interest.

Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Corresponding author: Matilde Elices, PhD, PsyD, Postdoc, Mental Health Research Group, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Dr Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Spain.melices@researchmar.net

Received: December 24, 2023
Revised: January 24, 2024
Accepted: February 29, 2024
Published online: June 16, 2024
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Core Tip

Core Tip: The metaverse is a new three-dimensional environment where technologies like artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and virtual reality converge. In this opinion review, we discussed its transformative potential for mental health.