Dr. Vance conducted a study to investigate the effectiveness of a novel virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) for a patient diagnosed with severe agoraphobia.
She recorded the frequency of panic attacks experienced by the patient per week during a baseline period before the therapy commenced, and compared this with the weekly frequency of panic attacks recorded over a period of the same duration after the therapy was completed.
Identify the experimental design Dr. Vance used in this study.
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