NCT03625206

Cognitive Bias Modification Training in Adolescents Who Have Experienced Adversity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Institute of Psychiatry, London · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Adolescents who have experienced adversity (childhood maltreatment and other forms of broader victimisation experiences) will be randomly allocated to receive a 5-session cognitive bias modification training (with attention and interpretation bias modification modules) or a control condition. Outcome measures include measures of cognitive biases and symptoms of psychopathology; in addition, in a subset of adolescents, brain activity data will be acquired. All adolescents will complete a feedback form, upon which acceptability of the intervention will be assessed.

Detailed description

Up to 80 adolescents aged 12-18 years who have experienced adversity (childhood maltreatment and other forms of broader victimisation experiences) from India and Nepal will be randomly allocated to receive a 5-session cognitive bias modification training (with attention and interpretation bias modification modules) or a control condition over a 2-week period. Pre and post-assessment measures include measures of attention and interpretation biases and symptoms of internalising and externalising psychopathology. In addition, in a subset of adolescents, brain activity data acquired using EEG will be acquired either during resting or viewing emotional face stimuli. Data from these measures will be used to generate effect sizes of changes for each group as well as being used in a limited number of significance-testing analysis. All adolescents will complete a feedback form, upon which acceptability of the intervention will be assessed.

Conditions

• Child Abuse
• Child Neglect
• Victimization

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Cognitive bias modification training	These training sessions aim to modify a selective attention bias towards threat and a tendency to interpret ambiguous situations in threatening ways
BEHAVIORAL	Control training	These exercises are matched to the task demands of the modules of cognitive bias modification training

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-17
• Primary completion: 2020-05-17
• Completion: 2020-05-17
• First posted: 2018-08-10
• Last updated: 2020-08-11

Locations

2 sites across 2 countries: India, Nepal