Ramírez, Andrés https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3493-6519
Burgos-Benavides, Luis https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1364-8995
Díez, Javier Herrero https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8950-1714
Sinchi-Sinchi, Hugo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8419-1382
Alfaro-Urquiola, Alhena L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9660-0320
Medina-Maldonado, Venus https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4260-6230
Rodríguez-Díaz, Francisco Javier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5899-439X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universidad Politecnica Salesiana
Article History
Received: 3 September 2024
Accepted: 5 July 2025
First Online: 21 August 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures conducted in this study involving human participants adhered to the ethical standards established by the ethics committee. The study was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (code 046-UIO-2022). Informed consent was obtained from all participants. His research is derived from the research project entitled “Prevalence and Risk Factors of Dating Violence among Ecuadorian Adolescents and University Students and Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Psychological Intervention with Virtual Reality in Reducing Anxiety, Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Derived from Violence,” under the direction of Dr. Andres Ramirez, with the support of the Applied Clinical Neuroscience Research Group (Grupo de Investigación en Neurociencia Clínica Aplicada [GINCA]) of the Salesian Polytechnic University (Universidad Politécnica Salesiana), Cuenca, Ecuador.
: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.