Clinical trial NCT01463137: Attention Bias Modification Training in Social Phobia/Social Anxiety Disorder
Official title: Computerized Attention Bias Modification Training in Social Phobia/Social Anxiety Disorder
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Social Phobia
Keywords: social phobia
anxiety
Lead sponsor: Umeå University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2011-11-01
Enrollment: 129
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 100
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: A study investigating six different versions of a computerized attention bias modification internet program in the treatment of social phobia / social anxiety disorder.

Detailed description: Previous studies have shown that individuals with social phobia have attention biases, often focusing on aversive stimuli or avoiding aversive stimuli. Computerized training programs have been developed to implicitly direct the users attention towards a neutral, non-threatening stimuli. In this study, such a program will be compared with a program that implicitly directs the users' attention towards threatening cues. Pre/post-measurements will be compared in a sample of individuals that meet diagnostic criteria of Social Anxiety Disorder. Participants will be randomized to one of three groups, receiving one of the two variants of the attention bias modification program or a control training program.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Participants must meet criteria for social phobia using the International classification system Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (DSM-IV).
* Comorbidity is allowed, but social phobia must be the primary diagnosis.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Below 18 years old.
* Individuals who are suicide prone will be excluded from the study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline in Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale self rated version
timeFrame: pretreatment (week 0), post treatment (week 2), 4 month follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change from baseline in Social Phobia Screening Questionnaire
timeFrame: Pretreatment (week 0), post treatment (week 2), 4 month follow-up
measure: Change from baseline in Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS)
timeFrame: Pretreatment (week 0), post treatment (week 2), 4 month follow-up
measure: Change from baseline in Social Phobia Scale (SPS)
timeFrame: Pretreatment (week 0), post treatment (week 2), 4 month follow-up
measure: Change from baseline in Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS-S)
timeFrame: Pretreatment (week 0), post treatment (week 2), 4 month follow-up
measure: Change from baseline in Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI)
timeFrame: Pretreatment (week 0), post treatment (week 2), 4 month follow-up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Umeå
country: Sweden
facility: Department of Psychology, Umeå University
state: Västerbotten
Study officials:
References:
citation: Boettcher J, Leek L, Matson L, Holmes EA, Browning M, MacLeod C, Andersson G, Carlbring P. Internet-based attention bias modification for social anxiety: a randomised controlled comparison of training towards negative and training towards positive cues. PLoS One. 2013 Sep 30;8(9):e71760. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071760. eCollection 2013.