NCT01909193

CBT vs. ABM vs. for Social Anxiety

Cognitive Behavior Therapy vs. Attention Bias Modification Treatment for Social Anxiety

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 69 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hebrew University of Jerusalem · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder will be pseudo randomly assigned to either an individual cognitive behavior therapy, attention bias modification treatment (allocation ratio - 1.5:1). Outcome measures will be social anxiety symptoms and severity as measured by gold standard questionnaires as well as diagnosis of social anxiety disorder derived from structured clinical interviews based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) IV criteria. The investigators expect to find significant reduction in social anxiety symptoms in all of the groups, with the cognitive behavior therapy group showing greater reduction in symptoms than the other groups. Mechanisms of change in all of the groups will be examined via measures of cognitive biases, affect, and other common and specific factors.

Detailed description

120 Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder will be pseudo randomly assigned to either an individual cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), attention bias modification treatment (ABM)). Outcome measures will be social anxiety symptoms and severity as measured by gold standard questionnaires as well as diagnosis of social anxiety disorder derived from structured clinical interviews based on DSM-IV criteria. The investigators expect to find significant reduction in social anxiety symptoms in all of the groups, with the cognitive behavior therapy group showing greater reduction in symptoms than the other groups. Mechanisms of change in all of the groups will be examined via measures of cognitive biases, affect, and other common and specific factors.

Conditions

• Social Phobia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Attention Bias Modification (ABM)	Attention training via 8 weekly repeated trials of a dot-probe task intended to direct attention away from threat stimuli.
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive Behavior Therapy	CBT will consist of 16-20 weekly individual treatment sessions aimed to reduce symptoms via cognitive and behavioral interventions

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-07-01
• Completion: 2014-11-01
• First posted: 2013-07-26
• Last updated: 2016-02-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel