NCT03546946

Investigating Attention Patterns in Young People With Anxiety

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 99 (estimated)
• Sponsor: King's College London · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Adolescents with elevated anxiety have been found to direct their voluntary and involuntary attention more readily toward threatening stimuli, and spend more time dwelling upon that stimuli. Various computerised tasks have been developed to attempt to retrain these "attention biases" back away from threat. This study will test a newly developed intervention, that uses (eye-tracking) methods to track the gaze of the individual. This intervention is called Gaze-Contingent Music Reward Training (GC-MRT), and is designed to re-train the individual away from dwelling upon threatening stimuli (emotional faces), using their favourite music to re-infornce this learning.

Conditions

• Anxiety
• Adolescent Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Gaze-Contingent Music Reward Training	Participants will hear their selected music track playing, dependent on their gaze location, when viewing a grid on neutral and negative faces.
BEHAVIORAL	Control Training	Participants will hear their selected music track playing, regardless of their gaze location, when viewing a grid on neutral and negative faces.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-05
• Primary completion: 2020-01-01
• Completion: 2020-01-01
• First posted: 2018-06-06
• Last updated: 2019-03-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom