NCT05268965

Study of Affective Forecasting Skills in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Autonomic and Subjective Correlates of Affective Forecasting Skills in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 97 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Lille · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with a marked tendency to have exaggerated and persistent negative beliefs and expectations about oneself or the world . Although posttraumatic stress symptoms have been shown to be associated with a tendency to negatively anticipate the future, affective forecasting skills (i.e., the ability to predict one's own emotional reactions in response to a future event) have never been explored in PTSD . The hypothesis that the PTSD is associated with a negative affective forecasting bias, characterized by a tendency to predict more intense emotional responses to future negative events.

Conditions

• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Experimental: group comparison	* Standardized psychiatric interview (Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview MINI) * State-Trait-Anxiety Inventory (Spielberger, 1993) * Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II, 1998) * Cognitive Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (Jermann \& al., 2006) Participant installation and testing: 2 stages (forecasting on a computer, and exposure in virtual reality) Task / affective forecasting: * Step 1: forecasting about one's own emotional responses regarding pleasant, neutral and unpleasant scenarios * Step 2: experience of the same scenarios in virtual reality

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-28
• Primary completion: 2023-11-22
• Completion: 2023-11-22
• First posted: 2022-03-07
• Last updated: 2025-12-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France