Attention Control Training for PTSD in Children

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: PTSD
• Interventions: Behavioral: Comparison Task; Behavioral: Attention Control Training

• Registration Number: NCT03348540
• Lead Sponsor: Creighton University

Brief Summary

Participants will complete a pre and post training psychological assessment. Participants will be assigned to attention control training or the comparison stimuli computer task in a double-blind randomized control trial design. Both computerized dot probe tasks display two faces on a computer screen, one above the other, followed by a small right or left arrow appearing in the location vacated by one of the faces. Participants are required to respond as quickly as they can by pressing the indicated right or left arrow on their computer keyboard without compromising accuracy. Participants complete 6 training sessions.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2017-11-16
• Study Start: 2017-11-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-11-20
• Study First Posted: 2017-11-21
• Primary Completion: 2023-11-20
• Study Completion: 2023-11-20
• Status Verified: 2024-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-02-06
• Last Update Posted: 2024-02-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 89

Inclusion Criteria

• significant symptoms of PTSD and qualifying traumatic event

Exclusion Criteria

• new traumatic event within one month of beginning the trial

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Comparison Task	Comparison Task	6 sessions in the clinic of a presumably inactive neutral-neutral stimuli intervention lasting approximately 10 minutes each. • Each session will consist of 128 presentations of pairs of faces, followed by the presentation of a response cue (right or left arrow to be clicked on a computer keyboard).
Attention Control Training	Attention Control Training	* 6 sessions in the clinic lasting approximately 10 minutes each. * Each session will consist of 128 presentations of pairs of neutral and threatening stimuli, followed by the presentation of a response cue (right or left arrow to be clicked on a computer keyboard).

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms from pre to post test	10 minute long administration, given twice to measure change scores from pre and post training approximately 1 month apart	PTSD self-report questionnaire

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Creighton Univeristy; 🇺🇸 Omaha, Nebraska, United States