NCT05306197

Improving Performance of Combat Soldiers by Utilizing Attentional Training Based on Eye Tracking

Improving Performance of Combat Soldiers by Utilizing Attentional Training Based on Eye Tracking - Improvement of Combat Performance

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 79 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tel Aviv University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Military service in combat units entails exposure to traumatic events that require mental adjustment. To develop and efficiently apply attentional interventions aimed at enhancing soldiers' combat performance, it is essential to extensively investigate the efficiency of these training programs, which has yet to been done. The prupose of the current study is to examine the efficiency of the new attention eye-tracking based training, in comparison to RT-based training and to a control group, in improving performance of combat soldiers. In addition, the influence of the attention training on aspects of psychological resilience will also be examined in questionnaires.

Detailed description

Following the explanation to participants regarding the study process, those who give written consent to participate will be randomly placed into one of three groups: GCFT (N=60), ABMT (N=60), and a neutral control group - task based on eye-tracking (N=60). The study will include 2 measurement points during the military service: before the attention training and after the attention training. In each measurement point, the soldiers will complete computerized tasks to measure threat attention, questionnaires, and performance data from shooting ranges and combat fitness.

Conditions

• Military Combat Performance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Gaze-Contingent Feedback Training	Feedback according to participants' viewing patterns, in order to modify their attention toward threat stimuli.
BEHAVIORAL	Attention Bias Modification	Attention training via repeated trials of a dot-probe task intended to direct attention toward threat stimuli using threat and neutral face stimuli.
BEHAVIORAL	Non-Contingent Feedback Training	Participants listen to a musical track they chose with no operant conditioning.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-03-14
• Primary completion: 2024-02-27
• Completion: 2024-06-21
• First posted: 2022-04-01
• Last updated: 2024-07-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel