Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02401282
Attention and Social Behavior in Children
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 251 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Penn State University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 9 Years – 12 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
This study examines the way attention may be linked to temperamental risk for anxiety, social behavior and brain processes. The study aims to see if temperamentally at risk youth display an attention bias towards threat, and if anxiety symptoms can be reduced through attentional bias modification training.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Attention Bias Modification | This is a modification of the dot-probe task (placebo task) designed to train attention away from threat |
| BEHAVIORAL | Dot-probe task | This is the active control placebo condition that simply measures levels of attention to threat |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2011-12-01
- Primary completion
- 2016-12-17
- Completion
- 2016-12-17
- First posted
- 2015-03-27
- Last updated
- 2018-01-16
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02401282. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.