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Attention Bias Modification Training in Youth With Subthreshold Impairing Anxiety
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Attention Bias Modification and Placebo Attention Task for Anxiety. Completed, enrolled 53 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
This study is a pilot test of Attention Bias Modification Training (ABMT) among clinic referred children and adolescents with subthreshold impairing anxiety (i.e., anxiety and related impairment that fails to meet criteria for an anxiety disorder diagnosis). Half of participants will receive 8 sessions of computer administered ABMT and the other half of participants will receive a 8 sessions of a computer administered control task.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
At each of eight sessions, participants complete 160 computer administered trials wherein a pair of threatening stimuli and neutral stimuli is presented simultaneously and then followed immediately by a probe. The probe always replaces the neutral stimulus and never replaces the threatening stimulus. The intervention is based on the idea that attention can be shaped via repetitive computer based training methods, and training attention toward neutral stimuli will lead to a reduction in anxiety and its disorders.
At each of eight sessions, participants complete 160 computer administered trials wherein a pair of threatening stimuli and neutral stimuli is presented simultaneously and then followed immediately by a probe. The probe replaces the neutral stimulus and the threatening stimulus with equal probability.