NCT06168253

Text Message Safety Behavior Fading for Social Anxiety

Text Message Safety Behavior Fading Intervention for Social Anxiety

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 201 (actual)
• Sponsor: Florida State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The current study aims to explore the efficacy of a text message based Safety Behavior Fading Intervention compared to an active control intervention.

Detailed description

Safety behavior fading may be a viable standalone intervention for social anxiety. In the present trial, participants high in social anxiety will be randomized to either receive a daily checklist exercise aimed at eliminating (1) safety behaviors or (2) unhealthy behaviors. Individuals randomly assigned to the safety behavior fading condition will receive instructions to decrease or eliminate their four most habitual social anxiety safety behaviors. In addition, they will receive daily reminders via text message to decrease these behaviors, along with a safety behavior monitoring checklist in which the participant indicates the extent to which they decreased and/or eliminated each safety behavior over the previous day. Individuals randomly assigned to the control condition will receive similar text messages and a daily checklist to encourage fading of unhealthy behaviors. Participants in both conditions will complete checklists for 28 days. After day 14 of treatment, participants will re-select their target safety behaviors or unhealthy behaviors, and will then be prompted to reduce these new behaviors for another 14 days.

Conditions

• Social Anxiety

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Safety Behavior Fading for Social Anxiety	Participants are asked to reduce or eliminate safety behaviors via text message reminders and checklists to monitor progress.
BEHAVIORAL	Unhealthy Behavior Fading	Participants are asked to reduce or eliminate unhealthy behaviors via text message reminders and checklists to monitor progress.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-01-01
• Primary completion: 2024-09-01
• Completion: 2024-09-01
• First posted: 2023-12-13
• Last updated: 2025-02-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States