Fear learning during pandemic fear: how COVID-19 perception affects classical fear conditioning

• Conditions: Only healthy subjects are examined.

• Registration Number: DRKS00022761
• Lead Sponsor: niversität des SaarlandesAbteilung für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-07-30
• Study Completion: 2020-12-17
• Results First Posted: 2022-08-10
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 297

Inclusion Criteria

Healthy volunteers

Exclusion Criteria

Current mental illness
Tinnitus
Epilepsy

Study & Design

• Study Type: observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
- Differences in fear acquisition and generalization depending on the subjective, traumatic perception of the COVID-19 pandemic and the current state of fasting<br>- Paradigm: differential fear conditioning (acquisition, generalization)<br>- Dependent variables: subjective evaluations of the stimulus (contingency awareness, fear, expectation), measured by the experiment

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
- Questionnaires and subjective evaluations (subjective perception of the COVID-19 pandemic, fasting, STAI-S, stress, activation, anxiety as well as unpleasantness of the images) collected during the course of the experiment.