Attentional Bias in Body Dysmorphic Disorder (VAB)

Mass General Brigham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Body Dysmorphic Disorders

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01398904

2010P002912

Details and patient eligibility

About

Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) participants will demonstrate greater attentional biases as compared to healthy control (HC) participants. Greater attention bias will be associated with greater distress. Greater attention bias will be associated with greater symptom severity.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria for BDD and healthy control participants:

• males and females 18 years of age or older
• sufficient fluency of English to understand study staff, procedures, and questionnaires
• ability to provide informed consent

Inclusion for BDD participants only;

• primary diagnosis of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 4th Edition (DSM-IV-TR) BDD
• BDD Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Disorder score (Y-BOCS) of > 20
• primary facial/head concern

Exclusion Criteria:

• Major medical or neurological conditions
• schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or any other current lifetime DSM-IV psychotic disorder that is not attributable to delusional BDD
• current suicidality
• current homicidality

Exclusion criteria for healthy controls:

• Any current Axis I psychiatric illness
• history of BDD

Trial design

51 participants in 2 patient groups

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) Participants

Description:

Participants must be 18 years or older with a primary diagnosis of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a BDD Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (BDDY-BOCS) score of \>20, and a primary facial/head concern. Participants must have the ability to provide informed consent and understand study staff.

Healthy Controls

Description:

Males and females 18 years of age or older with ability to provide informed consent and understand study staff.