NCT03348540

Attention Control Training for PTSD in Children

Randomized Clinical Trial of Attention Control Training for Symptoms of PTSD in Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 89 (actual)
• Sponsor: Creighton University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Participants will complete a pre and post training psychological assessment. Participants will be assigned to attention control training or the comparison stimuli computer task in a double-blind randomized control trial design. Both computerized dot probe tasks display two faces on a computer screen, one above the other, followed by a small right or left arrow appearing in the location vacated by one of the faces. Participants are required to respond as quickly as they can by pressing the indicated right or left arrow on their computer keyboard without compromising accuracy. Participants complete 6 training sessions.

Conditions

• PTSD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Attention Control Training	Attention control training teaches participants that the emotional salience of cues (i.e., threatening or neutral) is not related to successful completion of the computerized response task, and thus, teaches participants to ignore irrelevant threat-related contingencies (Badura-Brack et al., 2015).
BEHAVIORAL	Comparison Task	Neutral- neutral stimuli prior to response task

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-11-20
• Primary completion: 2023-11-20
• Completion: 2023-11-20
• First posted: 2017-11-21
• Last updated: 2024-02-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States