Clinical trial NCT03671577: Building Closer Friendships in Social Anxiety Disorder
Official title: Building Closer Friendships in Social Anxiety Disorder: A Preliminary Test
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Social Anxiety
Lead sponsor: Florida State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-09-14
Enrollment: 55
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants will be randomized into active treatment or waitlist control.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study assesses whether a 4-week computerized intervention can be used to decrease fear of intimacy, and loneliness and improve perceived social support in people with Social Anxiety Disorder.

Detailed description: This study hopes to assess whether a month long computerized intervention aimed at giving people skills to form closer friendships. Participants will be randomized into an active treatment condition or a wait list control. We hypothesize that 1) participants in the treatment condition will have lower fear of intimacy at post treatment than those in the waitlist condition 2) participants in the treatment condition will have lower levels of loneliness than those in the waitlist condition 3) participants in the treatment condition will have higher perceived social support than those in the waitlist condition.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Social Anxiety Disorder Diagnosed by the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview
* Social Phobia Inventory Score \>19
* Stable psychotropic medication for the past month and kept stable for duration of study

Exclusion Criteria:

* Currently participating in therapy
* Current Substance Dependence
* Bipolar Disorder or psychotic illness
* Current suicidality (imminent risk)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support
timeFrame: Change in Perceived Social Support from baseline to post treatment (4weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)
measure: Fear of Intimacy Scale-friend version
timeFrame: Change in fear of intimacy from baseline to post treatment (4weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: UCLA Loneliness Scale
timeFrame: Change in loneliness from baseline to post treatment (4weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)
measure: Social Phobia inventory
timeFrame: Change in social anxiety symptoms from baseline to post treatment (4 weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)
measure: State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety-Trait Version (STICSA-T)
timeFrame: Change in overall anxiety symptoms from baseline to post treatment (4 weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)
measure: Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)
timeFrame: Change in depression symptoms from baseline to post treatment (4 weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)
measure: Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (INQ)
timeFrame: Change in suicide vulnerability from baseline to post treatment (4 weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Tallahassee
country: United States
facility: Florida State University
state: Florida
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