NCT06710145

The Effect of Using the Combat Attention App on the Risk of Post-traumatic Symptoms

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Tel Aviv University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Military service and reserve duty in combat units entails exposure to traumatic events that require mental adjustment. In light of the results of controlled studies that proved the effectiveness an response-time based mechanized training protocol in reducing risk for post-trauma symptoms in deployed combat soldiers, the Israeli Defense Forces decided at the beginning of the Iron Swords War to implement an internet-based App of the intervention. Soldiers and combat reservists were invited to use the Combat Attention App. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the Combat Attention App in relation to a control group of soldiers who did not use the App in reducing risk for post-traumatic stress symptoms of deployed soldiers.

Detailed description

Participants who used the Combat Attention App before combat deployment and a group of matched (age and sex) participants who did not use the App will be compared on PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptoms post deployment.

Conditions

• PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Combat Attention Training	The Combat Attention App is a response-time based mechanized preventive intervention designed to train combat soldiers' attention toward threats before combat exposure in order to reduce the risk for combat-related post-trauma symptoms. In light of the results of controlled studies that proved the efficacy of this preventive intervention, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) decided at the beginning of the Iron Swords War (October 7th, 2023) to implement an internet-based App of the intervention, and soldiers and combat reservists were invited to train on the Combat Attention App.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-01-01
• Primary completion: 2026-06-30
• Completion: 2026-12-31
• First posted: 2024-11-29
• Last updated: 2025-04-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel