A Virtual Reality Intervention to Promote Uptake of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department Following Opioid-Involved Overdose Based on Input From People With Lived Experience: Development Study

Zina Trost   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Andrea Stevenson Won   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Hari Prasad Naidu Boyapati   ³ , MBBS ;   Keri Costa   ³ , MSN ;   Josh Davenport   ⁴ , BA ;   Gail D’Onofrio   ^{5, 6} , MD ;   Leslie Drager   ³ , BSN ;   Phillip Corey Shum   ⁴ ;   Michael Wolfe Pierce   ³ , MD ;   Liana Fraenkel   ^{3, 5 *} , MPH, MD ;   William Soares III   ^{7 *} , MS, MD

¹ Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States

² Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States

³ Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, MA, United States

⁴ Immersive Experience Laboratories LLC, Birmingham, AL, United States

⁵ Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States

⁶ Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States

⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally