NCT04729803

Attention, Teleconferencing and Social Anxiety

Investigating Attentional Processes: Teleconferencing and Social Anxiety

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 53 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study involves completing some online assessments and an intervention for social anxiety that all involve interactions with other people on a teleconferencing call.

Conditions

• Social Anxiety Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Experimental: Attention Guidance + Exposure	1. Participants will receive a brief standardized psychoeducation module, presented via a video recording. 2. Participants will then complete up to 10 analogue teleconferencing calls, each lasting a maximum of two minutes. 3. Between speeches participants will have a 1-minute break. 4. Participants will complete the subjective units of distress scale (SUDS) before and after each speech trial. The experimental attention guidance condition: (1) the intervention rationale will include information about the importance of visually attending to the faces of the audience; (2) participants will be given target audience members to focus their gaze on during the their impromptu response. They will be told that they should look at and focus on the target audience member for the whole response.
BEHAVIORAL	Active Comparator: Exposure Alone	1. Participants will receive a brief standardized psychoeducation module, presented via a video recording. 2. Participants will then complete up to 10 analogue teleconferencing calls, each lasting a maximum of two minutes. 3. Between speeches participants will have a 1-minute break. 4. Participants will complete the subjective units of distress scale (SUDS) before and after each speech trial.
BEHAVIORAL	Experimental: Attention Control + Exposure	1. Participants will receive a brief standardized psychoeducation module, presented via a video recording. F 2. Participants will then complete up to 10 analogue teleconferencing calls, each lasting a maximum of two minutes. During each call participants will be prompted by one of the audience members. 3. Between speeches participants will have a 1-minute break. 4. Participants will complete the subjective units of distress scale (SUDS) before and after each speech trial. The experimental attention control condition: (1) the intervention rationale will include information about the importance of attention control; (2) participants will be given target at the center of the screen to focus their gaze on during the their impromptu response. They will be told that they should look at and focus on the target for the whole response.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-18
• Primary completion: 2022-06-30
• Completion: 2022-06-30
• First posted: 2021-01-29
• Last updated: 2024-01-08
• Results posted: 2024-01-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States