Fig 1.
Citation: Chan A-W, Boutron I, Hopewell S, Moher D, Schulz KF, et al. SPIRIT 2025 statement: updated guideline for protocols of randomised trials. BMJ 2025;389:e081477. https://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2024-081477. © 2025 Chan A-W et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Fig 2.
The creation of an avatar in Virtual Reality.
An avatar is created to correspond to the participant’s experience of the hallucinated voice by adjusting multiple features in a VR software program, developed by HekaVR.
Fig 3.
The participant will wear Shimmer GSR+ while exposed to the avatar in VR.