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CBT vs. ABM vs. for Social Anxiety

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Status

Completed

Conditions

Social Phobia

Treatments

Behavioral: Attention Bias Modification (ABM)
Behavioral: Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder will be pseudo randomly assigned to either an individual cognitive behavior therapy, attention bias modification treatment (allocation ratio - 1.5:1).

Outcome measures will be social anxiety symptoms and severity as measured by gold standard questionnaires as well as diagnosis of social anxiety disorder derived from structured clinical interviews based on Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) IV criteria.

The investigators expect to find significant reduction in social anxiety symptoms in all of the groups, with the cognitive behavior therapy group showing greater reduction in symptoms than the other groups. Mechanisms of change in all of the groups will be examined via measures of cognitive biases, affect, and other common and specific factors.

Full description

120 Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder will be pseudo randomly assigned to either an individual cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), attention bias modification treatment (ABM)).

Outcome measures will be social anxiety symptoms and severity as measured by gold standard questionnaires as well as diagnosis of social anxiety disorder derived from structured clinical interviews based on DSM-IV criteria.

The investigators expect to find significant reduction in social anxiety symptoms in all of the groups, with the cognitive behavior therapy group showing greater reduction in symptoms than the other groups. Mechanisms of change in all of the groups will be examined via measures of cognitive biases, affect, and other common and specific factors.

Enrollment

69 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 75 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Diagnosis of Generalized Social Anxiety Disorder, LSAS>50
  • If on medication, patients must be on a stable dose
  • Hebrew language fluency

Exclusion criteria

  • Primary Axis I or Axis II disorder other than SAD
  • suicidal ideation
  • Substance dependence within the past three months or current substance abuse
  • Mental retardation or another pervasive developmental disability
  • Current or past schizophrenia or psychosis, current bipolar disorder, or organic brain syndrome

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

69 participants in 2 patient groups

Attention Bias Modification (ABM)
Experimental group
Description:
Attention training via 8 weekly repeated trials of a dot-probe task intended to direct attention away from threat stimuli.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Attention Bias Modification (ABM)
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Experimental group
Description:
CBT will consist of 16-20 weekly individual treatment sessions aimed to reduce symptoms via cognitive and behavioral interventions
Treatment:
Behavioral: Cognitive Behavior Therapy

Trial contacts and locations

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