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Interpretation Modification Program for Social Phobia
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Interpretation Modification Program and Interpretation Control Condition for Social Anxiety Disorder and Social Phobia. Completed, enrolled 49 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Generalized Social Phobia is characterized by severe social anxiety that leads to functional impairment (Schneider et al., 1992). Despite its high prevalence, many individuals do not receive treatment or are unresponsive to current therapies. Thus there is a clear need to continue to develop highly effective and efficient treatments for social phobia. This three year project aims to test a computerized treatment for social phobia in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study designed to modify interpretation biases that may maintain anxiety.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The IMP protocol includes twelve 30-min sessions delivered over a 6-week period. Each session will comprise 220 trials. In each trial, participants will first see either a non-threat or a threat (e.g. "graceful" or "clumsy") word on the computer screen. They will then see an ambiguous sentence (e.g. "You dance at the party") and will be asked to indicate if the word and sentence were related by pressing a corresponding key. Participants will receive positive feedback (i.e., "You are correct!") when they endorse a non-threat interpretation or reject a threat interpretation of an ambiguous sentence. Participants will receive negative feedback (i.e., "You are incorrect.") when they endorse a threat interpretation or reject a non-threat interpretation of an ambiguous sentence.
Participants assigned to the PC completed an identical procedure to the IMP procedure except that feedback about participants' performance was not contingent on the type of interpretation (i.e., non-threat or threat) endorsed. Thus, participants in the PC received positive feedback 50% of the time when viewing a threat interpretation and 50% of the time when viewing a non-threat interpretation.