NCT01463137

Attention Bias Modification Training in Social Phobia/Social Anxiety Disorder

Computerized Attention Bias Modification Training in Social Phobia/Social Anxiety Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 129 (actual)
• Sponsor: Umeå University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A study investigating six different versions of a computerized attention bias modification internet program in the treatment of social phobia / social anxiety disorder.

Detailed description

Previous studies have shown that individuals with social phobia have attention biases, often focusing on aversive stimuli or avoiding aversive stimuli. Computerized training programs have been developed to implicitly direct the users attention towards a neutral, non-threatening stimuli. In this study, such a program will be compared with a program that implicitly directs the users' attention towards threatening cues. Pre/post-measurements will be compared in a sample of individuals that meet diagnostic criteria of Social Anxiety Disorder. Participants will be randomized to one of three groups, receiving one of the two variants of the attention bias modification program or a control training program.

Conditions

• Social Phobia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Attention bias modification	All arms will consist of 10 minutes of training in front of a computer screen (192 trials) once a day for 14 days.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-10-01
• Primary completion: 2013-01-01
• Completion: 2013-01-01
• First posted: 2011-11-01
• Last updated: 2016-11-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden