NCT03000699

Efficacy of Cognitive Bias Modification in Residential Treatment for Addiction

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 88 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether computer bias modification for interpretation bias (CBM-I) is effective in the reduction of suicidal ideation in substance use disorders.

Detailed description

Eighty-eight adult inpatients completing residential treatment in the Addictions Services at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) will be randomized to receive CBM-I daily for one week, adjunct to the residential psychosocial treatment or to an assessment-only control condition. Participants will complete clinical measures consisting of interviews and questionnaires measuring suicidal ideation, hopelessness, depression, negative affect, and interpretation biases before, during and after treatment.

Conditions

• Substance Dependence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive Bias Modification	Training paragraphs describe scenarios designed to be ambiguous at the outset and to resolve in a positive direction, with the intention of establishing a learning contingency between the ambiguity at the beginning of the scenario and the positive resolution that becomes clear towards the end of the statement.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-01
• Primary completion: 2018-10-01
• Completion: 2018-12-31
• First posted: 2016-12-22
• Last updated: 2019-01-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada