NCT01397032

Attention Bias Modification Treatment for Children With Social Anxiety

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 67 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tel Aviv University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Children with social anxiety will be randomly assigned to either Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) designed to direct attention away from threat or a placebo control condition not designed to change attention patterns. Outcome measures will be depression and social anxiety symptoms as measured by gold standard questionnaires as well as diagnosis of social phobia disorder and symptom counts derived from structured clinical interviews with children and their parents. We expect to see significant reduction in social anxiety symptoms in the Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) group relative to the placebo control group.

Conditions

• Social Phobia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT)	Behavioral: Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) Attention training using a computerized spatial attention task (dot-probe) modified to alter threat-related attention patterns.
BEHAVIORAL	Attention Control Condition	Attention training using a computerized spatial attention task (dot-probe) not intended to alter threat-related attention patterns.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-04-01
• Primary completion: 2014-08-01
• Completion: 2014-08-01
• First posted: 2011-07-19
• Last updated: 2015-05-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel