Attention Bias Modification Treatment for Children With Social Anxiety

Phase 2

Completed

• Conditions: Social Phobia
• Interventions: Behavioral: Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT); Behavioral: Attention Control Condition

• Registration Number: NCT01397032
• Lead Sponsor: Tel Aviv University

Brief Summary

Children with social anxiety will be randomly assigned to either Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) designed to direct attention away from threat or a placebo control condition not designed to change attention patterns. Outcome measures will be depression and social anxiety symptoms as measured by gold standard questionnaires as well as diagnosis of social phobia disorder and symptom counts derived from structured clinical interviews with children and their parents.

We expect to see significant reduction in social anxiety symptoms in the Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) group relative to the placebo control group.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-04
• Study First Submitted: 2011-06-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-07-18
• Study First Posted: 2011-07-19
• Primary Completion: 2014-08
• Study Completion: 2014-08
• Status Verified: 2015-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-05-25
• Last Update Posted: 2015-05-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 67

Inclusion Criteria

• children suffering from social anxiety

Exclusion Criteria

• Pharmacological or Psychological treatment

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Attention Bias Modification (ABM)	Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT)	Attention training via repeated trials of a dot-probe task intended to direct attention away from threat stimuli.
Placebo	Attention Control Condition	Attention training via repeated trials of a dot-probe task not intended to change threat-related attention patterns.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for DSM-IV (ADIS)	expected average time frame of 6 weeks. Participants will be assessed before and after the administriation of the training/control protocols.	The ADIS is a semi-structured interview assessing anxiety, mood and externalizing disorders in children according to DSM-IV criteria.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI-C) and for Parents (SPAI-c-p)	expected average time frame of 6 weeks. Participants will be assessed before and after the administriation of the training/control protocols.	The SPAI is a 26-item self and parent-report instrument designed to assess social anxiety in children and adolescents. Items assess a range of potentially anxiety-producing situations.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Tel-Aviv University; 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Israel