Autopsy report · NCT06214039

Virtual Reality Exposure for Public Speaking Anxiety

“Not enough of the screened participants met the inclusion criteria. Despite extensive recruitment efforts we could not recruit enough participants to reach the calculated target sample of 86 for randomization.”

The sponsor’s own words in the registry.

Life of this trial

• Registered 2 months before it started.
• Ran for about 2 years 2 months before it stopped.
• 37 participants enrolled.
• No results are posted on the registry.

Vital statistics

Status

Terminated

Phase

Na

Sponsor

Vilnius University

Sponsor type

University, hospital or other

Conditions

Public Speaking Anxiety

Interventions

Exposure in virtual reality and text based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for public speaking anxiety

Participants

37

Sites

1

Countries

Lithuania

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Look deeper

• The official registry record (the source of truth)
• Record history: every change the sponsor made
• Open it in the database

Everything here comes from the current ClinicalTrials.gov record. The timeline uses the record’s dates; dates marked planned are the sponsor’s plans. The cause of death is an automatic, unverified label. This is research information, not medical advice.