Attention Training Trial

York University

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: No Attention Modification Training; Behavioral: Attention Modification Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02892032

e2016-240

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to examine the effects of smartphone-based Attention-Bias Modification Training (ABMT) in chronic pain participants.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• existing chronic pain condition

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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0 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Attention Modification Training

Experimental group

Description:

ABMT is a newly emerging intervention that trains patients to override their tendency to focus on threatening aspects of an event and to interpret events as more neutral and therefore less stressful

Treatment:

Behavioral: Attention Modification Training

No Attention Modification Training

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

There is no disengagement of attention from a target stimulus. Attention is divided equally between two stimuli on the screen.

Treatment:

Behavioral: No Attention Modification Training