Computerized Treatment for Social Anxiety
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Social Anxiety
- Sponsor
- Florida State University
- Enrollment
- 97
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN)
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 5 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
This is an intervention study designed to evaluate a text message based safety behavior fading treatment for people with social anxiety disorder.
Detailed Description
This study hopes to assess whether a month long text message based safety behavior fading protocol is effective in reducing safety behaviors and social anxiety symptoms. Over the course of four consecutive weeks, text messages will be sent to participants the first day of the study and every other day for four weeks (14 texts in total). These text messages will remind participants to either avoid using their three most engaged in safety behaviors (assessed at pre-treatment) or to stay present-focused. The past week frequency of the participants' safety behaviors will be assessed at the beginning of pre-treatment, post-treatment, and four week follow up assessments Participants will be asked to complete an additional online questionnaire for both a post-treatment and a 4-week post-treatment follow up assessment. We hypothesize that: 1) the safety behavior group will show a greater overall reduction in social anxiety symptoms, 2) that the safety behavior group will show a reduction in the frequency of safety behavior use, and 3) that the present-focused group will show an increase in mindfulness.
Investigators
Jesse Cougle
Associate Professor
Florida State University
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Social Phobia Inventory score \> 29
Exclusion Criteria
- •receiving therapy
- •changes in the past 4 weeks with medication for emotional difficulties
- •psychotic symptoms
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN)
Time Frame: Change in social anxiety symptoms from baseline to post treatment (4 weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)
Self-report scale that measures Social anxiety symptoms. Scores range from 0 to 68 with higher scores indicating higher levels of social anxiety symptoms.
Secondary Outcomes
- Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale-Revised (CAMS-R)(Change in mindfulness from baseline to post treatment (4 weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks))
- Subtle Avoidance Frequency Examination(SAFE)(Change in safety behavior use from baseline to post treatment (4 weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks))