Building Closer Friendships in Social Anxiety Disorder

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Social Anxiety
• Interventions: Behavioral: Building Closer Friendships

• Registration Number: NCT03671577
• Lead Sponsor: Florida State University

Brief Summary

This study assesses whether a 4-week computerized intervention can be used to decrease fear of intimacy, and loneliness and improve perceived social support in people with Social Anxiety Disorder.

Detailed Description

This study hopes to assess whether a month long computerized intervention aimed at giving people skills to form closer friendships. Participants will be randomized into an active treatment condition or a wait list control. We hypothesize that 1) participants in the treatment condition will have lower fear of intimacy at post treatment than those in the waitlist condition 2) participants in the treatment condition will have lower levels of loneliness than those in the waitlist condition 3) participants in the treatment condition will have higher perceived social support than those in the waitlist condition.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2018-09-13
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-09-13
• Study First Posted: 2018-09-14
• Study Start: 2018-10-25
• Primary Completion: 2019-12-15
• Study Completion: 2019-12-15
• Status Verified: 2021-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-01-26
• Last Update Posted: 2021-01-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 55

Inclusion Criteria

• Social Anxiety Disorder Diagnosed by the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview
• Social Phobia Inventory Score >19
• Stable psychotropic medication for the past month and kept stable for duration of study

Exclusion Criteria

• Currently participating in therapy
• Current Substance Dependence
• Bipolar Disorder or psychotic illness
• Current suicidality (imminent risk)

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Active Treatment	Building Closer Friendships	four week computerized intervention designed to reduce fear of intimacy

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support	Change in Perceived Social Support from baseline to post treatment (4weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)	Self-report scale that measures perceived levels of social support. Scores range from 12 to 84 with higher scores indicating higher levels of perceived social support. The three subscales (friends, family and significant other) all have a range of 4 to 28 with higher scores indicating higher levels of perceived social support.
Fear of Intimacy Scale-friend version	Change in fear of intimacy from baseline to post treatment (4weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)	self report scale measuring fear of intimacy in friendships. Scores range from 26 to 130 with higher scores indicating a higher level of fear of intimacy.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Social Phobia inventory	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.
UCLA Loneliness Scale	Change in loneliness from baseline to post treatment (4weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)	A 20 item Self report scale measuring loneliness. Scales range from 0 to 60 with higher scores indicating a higher level of loneliness.
State-Trait Inventory for Cognitive and Somatic Anxiety-Trait Version (STICSA-T)	Change in overall anxiety symptoms from baseline to post treatment (4 weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)	Self-report measure used to assess overall anxiety symptoms. Scores range from 21 to 84 with higher scores indicating higher levels of overall anxiety.
Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)	Change in depression symptoms from baseline to post treatment (4 weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)	Self-report measure used to assess depressive symptoms. Total scores range from 0 to 60 with higher scores indicating a higher level of depressive symptoms.
Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire (INQ)	Change in suicide vulnerability from baseline to post treatment (4 weeks) and one month follow up (8 weeks)	Self report measure of suicide vulnerability. Total scores range from 15 to 105, with higher scores indicating a higher vulnerability for suicide.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Florida State University; 🇺🇸 Tallahassee, Florida, United States