Clinical trial NCT06710145: The Effect of Using the Combat Attention App on the Risk of Post-traumatic Symptoms
Official title: The Effect of Using the Combat Attention App on the Risk of Post-traumatic Symptoms
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Conditions: PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Lead sponsor: Tel Aviv University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-11-29
Enrollment: 1000
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: CASE_CONTROL
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The study population consists of enlisted and reservist soldiers who participated in the Iron Swards war and either used or did not use the attention App.

Brief summary: Military service and reserve duty in combat units entails exposure to traumatic events that require mental adjustment. In light of the results of controlled studies that proved the effectiveness an response-time based mechanized training protocol in reducing risk for post-trauma symptoms in deployed combat soldiers, the Israeli Defense Forces decided at the beginning of the Iron Swords War to implement an internet-based App of the intervention. Soldiers and combat reservists were invited to use the Combat Attention App. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of the Combat Attention App in relation to a control group of soldiers who did not use the App in reducing risk for post-traumatic stress symptoms of deployed soldiers.

Detailed description: Participants who used the Combat Attention App before combat deployment and a group of matched (age and sex) participants who did not use the App will be compared on PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptoms post deployment.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria:

* Age over 18 years.
* Served as an enlisted soldier or reservist during the Iron Swards War.
* Used the Combat Attention App or can serve as a matched control who did not use the App.
* Colloquial Hebrew sufficient to fill out the research questionnaires.

Exclusion criteria:

* Below 18 years of age.
* Colloquial Hebrew that is insufficient to fill out the research questionnaires.

Primary outcomes:
measure: PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5)
timeFrame: January-June 2025
measure: IDF Medical Records
timeFrame: January-June 2025
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Combat Experiences Scale
timeFrame: January-June 2025
measure: Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9)
timeFrame: January-June 2025
measure: Attention Bias Questionnaire (ABQ)
timeFrame: January-June 2025
measure: GAD-7
timeFrame: January-June 2025
measure: Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES)
timeFrame: January-June 2025
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Tel Aviv
country: Israel
facility: Tel Aviv University
Study officials:
affiliation: Tel Aviv University
name: Yair bAR-hAIM, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Wald I, Fruchter E, Ginat K, Stolin E, Dagan D, Bliese PD, Quartana PJ, Sipos ML, Pine DS, Bar-Haim Y. Selective prevention of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder using attention bias modification training: a randomized controlled trial. Psychol Med. 2016 Sep;46(12):2627-36. doi: 10.1017/S0033291716000945. Epub 2016 Jul 5.