Cognitive Biases Modification Treatment for Social Anxiety (CBMSP)

Tel Aviv University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Social Phobia

Treatments: Behavioral: Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT); Behavioral: Control Condition; Behavioral: Attention and Interpretive biases modification (CBM); Behavioral: Interpretation Bias Modification (IBM)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01503151

CBM_SP_2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

Adults with Social Phobia will be randomly assigned to either an attention bias modification treatment, interpretation bias modification treatment, both, or a placebo control condition not designed to change cognitive bias patterns.

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

The investigators expect to find significant reduction in social anxiety symptoms in the Treatment groups relative to the placebo control group. The investigators want to find out the relative efficacy of attention and interpretation oriented treatments and the combination of the two.

Enrollment: 95 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

People suffering from social anxiety

Exclusion criteria

Pharmacological or Psychological treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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95 participants in 4 patient groups, including a placebo group

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

repeated trials of a dot-probe task and repeated trials of an interpretation task, both not intended to change threat-related biases patterns.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control Condition

Attention Bias Modification (ABM)

Experimental group

Description:

Attention training via repeated trials of a dot-probe task intended to direct attention away from threat stimuli.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT)

Interpretation Bias Modification (IBM)

Experimental group

Description:

Interpretation training intended to facilitating a more benign interpretation bias

Treatment:

Behavioral: Interpretation Bias Modification (IBM)

Attention and interpretation biases modification

Experimental group

Description:

Attention and interpretation training intended to direct cognitive biases away from threat stimulus.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Attention and Interpretive biases modification (CBM)