NCT02163148

Predictors of Exposure Success in Public Speaking Anxiety

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Diego · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Anxiety disorders are common and impairing. Although exposure therapy is one of the most effective treatments for anxiety, some individuals do not fully respond to treatment, and these individual differences are not well understood. Exposure therapy involves repeated, deliberate, safe engagement with a feared stimulus without the feared outcome occurring. This treatment is thought to work through a type of emotional learning called fear extinction. This study aims to look at links between fear extinction learning and exposure success, with the overall goal of better understanding who is likely to respond best to exposure therapy and why.

Conditions

• Performance Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Massed speech exposure session	One session consisting of 4 speech exposures, each 5 minutes long.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-05-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2014-06-13
• Last updated: 2015-05-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States