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Resolving Psychological Stress (RePS): a Mobile Health Application for Modifying Attention Bias to Threat in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating RePS (Resolving Psychological Stress) - Threat ABM Training and RePS (Resolving Psychological Stress) - Neutral Attention Training for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Alcohol Use Disorder. Completed, enrolled 28 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The investigators have developed a mobile app called Resolving Psychological Stress (REPS) to help alleviate symptoms of PTSD. The app will administer threat-related attention bias modification to individuals who have both a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V (DSM-V) diagnosis of PTSD (and meet at least one DSM-V criteria for threat sensitivity) and a DSM-V diagnosis of Alcohol Use Disorder. The aims of the study are to explore both the feasibility and acceptability of the app with it's users, and to explore the efficacy of the app at alleviating PTSD severity.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
This mobile "app" will aim to reduce neurobiological threat sensitivity with the ultimate goal of developing novel treatments for PTSD. The app can be used on an iPhone Operating System (iOS) compatible phone and involves a training program that aims to directly reduce threat sensitivity by modifying attention. The contents of the app will be the same for each user.
This app will be a placebo attention bias modification that will be used on an iOS compatible phone. The placebo will contain only neutral words.