Investigating Attention Patterns in Young People With Anxiety
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Anxiety
- Sponsor
- King's College London
- Enrollment
- 99
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in anxiety symtoms
- Last Updated
- 7 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
Adolescents with elevated anxiety have been found to direct their voluntary and involuntary attention more readily toward threatening stimuli, and spend more time dwelling upon that stimuli. Various computerised tasks have been developed to attempt to retrain these "attention biases" back away from threat.
This study will test a newly developed intervention, that uses (eye-tracking) methods to track the gaze of the individual. This intervention is called Gaze-Contingent Music Reward Training (GC-MRT), and is designed to re-train the individual away from dwelling upon threatening stimuli (emotional faces), using their favourite music to re-infornce this learning.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •12-18 years of age upon study commencement
- •Diagnosed generalised or social anxiety disorder (assessed by SCID)
- •Informed written and witnessed consent
Exclusion Criteria
- •Psychosis
- •Learning difficulties
- •Uncorrected abnormal vision
- •Current use of SSRIs
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in anxiety symtoms
Time Frame: Baseline and post-intervention (4 weeks), and at 3-month follow up.
Change in anxiety symptoms from baseline at 4-weeks on the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders (KSADS), and at 3-month follow up
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in Self-report Anxiety(Baseline and post-intervention (4 weeks), and at 3-month follow up.)
- Change in Dwell time on negative faces(Baseline and post-intervention (4 weeks), and at 3-month follow up.)