Status:
COMPLETED
Attention Bias Modification for Anxiety: A Randomized Control Trial With Biomarkers
Lead Sponsor:
Hunter College of City University of New York
Conditions:
Anxiety
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-40 years
Phase:
PHASE2
Brief Summary
Computer-based attention bias modification treatment (ABMT), which is brief, cost-effective, and easy to administer, targets a key mechanism in pathological anxiety - the threat bias, or exaggerated a...
Detailed Description
Anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric diagnosis, affecting as many as 29% of people during their lifetime. In addition to the devastating personal cost of anxiety, the yearly economic cost...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- We will recruit ninety adults with moderate to severe symptoms of anxiety between the ages of 21 and 40, with an equal balance of males and females.
Exclusion
- Exclusion criteria include current or past episodes of disorders that include psychotic features (e.g., mania, schizophrenia, etc.,), suicidal intent, substance dependence, changes in pharmacological treatments during the 12 weeks prior to study entry, any concurrent psychotherapy, and serious medical illness.
- Other current and/or past Axis I diagnoses will not be excluded, but will be tracked.
- Given high rates of co-morbidity with anxiety, depressive symptoms will also be measured to assess impact on findings.
- To ensure understanding of the protocol, other exclusion criteria include inability to read, inability to complete assessments (i.e., severely impaired), and lack of English language comprehension.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2015
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 1 2018
Estimated Enrollment :
100 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT02200003
Start Date
February 1 2015
End Date
July 1 2018
Last Update
August 1 2018
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Hunter College of the City University of New York
New York, New York, United States, 10065