NCT01628016

The Effect of Attention Bias Modification Training on Reducing Depressive Symptoms

A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Evaluation of the Efficacy of Attentional Bias Modification Training in the Treatment of Depressive Symptoms

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 77 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hunan Normal University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test whether attention bias modification training is an effective neurobehavioral therapy to improve depressive symptoms.That is whether attention bias modification training is superior to placebo in reducing depressive symptoms over 1 year after training.

Detailed description

Attentional bias has been theorized to play a critical role in the onset and maintenance of depression. Attentional bias modification training (ABMT), an experimental paradigm that uses training to induce adaptive attentional bias, was developed to test the causal model and this has therapeutic implications in depression.To test the effect of ABMT on treatment of depressive symptoms, a randomized, double-blind, placebo and blank controlled trial is conducted in college students who are experiencing mild-to-severe symptoms of depression.

Conditions

• Depressive Symptoms

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	a word dot-probe task for training procedure	In the word dot-probe task for training procedure of attention bias modification, 90% of the targets appeared at the neutral word position and 10% at the sad word position.In the placebo condition, the targets appeared with equal probability in the sad (50%) and neutral (50%) word positions.All participants in ABM and placebo conditions received eight 12-min training sessions over a 2-week period.During each session, participants completed 216 word dot-probe trials.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-07-01
• Completion: 2013-07-01
• First posted: 2012-06-26
• Last updated: 2020-08-14
• Results posted: 2019-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China