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| At Ease USA | UNKNOWN |
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Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) will be randomly assigned to either Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) designed to reduce bias toward threat or a placebo control condition not designed to change attention patterns. Outcome measures will be PTSD, anxiety, depression, and alexithymia symptoms as measured by standard psychological interviews and questionnaires. Participants will also be invited to participate in physiological testing before and after receiving AMBT or placebo to serve as additional outcome measures and assess brain functioning, heart rate, and muscle tension.
The investigators expect to see significant PTSD symptom reduction in the Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) group relative to the placebo control group in which no symptomatic relief is expected. At the end of the study, if ABMT is shown to be effective, we will offer active ABMT to those participants randomly assigned to the placebo arm if they would like to receive the treatment.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Attention Bias Modification Treatment | Experimental | Attention bias modification training using a computerized spatial attention task (dot-probe) designed to alter threat-bias attention patterns away from threat. |
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| Attentional Control Training | Active Comparator | Attention control training using a computerized spatial attention taks (dot-probe) counter balances training toward and away from threat. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Attention Bias Modification Training Protocol | Behavioral | Attention Bias Modification computerized training sessions administered 2 times per week for 4 weeks making a total of 8 training sessions. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Will Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Symptom decrease with intervention | Using Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS): The clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) is a 30-item structured interview that corresponds to the DSM-IV criteria for PTSD (Blake, Weathers, Nagy, Kaloupek, Charney, & Keane, 1995) to assess symptoms of PTSD outcome. | 8 weeks |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Other psychiatics symptoms (ie Depression, Anger, Anxiety) | To assess potential decrease in psychiatric symptoms associated with PTSD, by comparing pre intervention and post intervention scores on psychological measures of deprssion, anger and anxiety. | 8 weeks |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Amy S Badura Brack, PhD | Creighton University | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Creighton University | Omaha | Nebraska | 68178 | United States |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 20887977 | Background | Hakamata Y, Lissek S, Bar-Haim Y, Britton JC, Fox NA, Leibenluft E, Ernst M, Pine DS. Attention bias modification treatment: a meta-analysis toward the establishment of novel treatment for anxiety. Biol Psychiatry. 2010 Dec 1;68(11):982-90. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.07.021. | |
| 26206075 | Derived | Badura-Brack AS, Naim R, Ryan TJ, Levy O, Abend R, Khanna MM, McDermott TJ, Pine DS, Bar-Haim Y. Effect of Attention Training on Attention Bias Variability and PTSD Symptoms: Randomized Controlled Trials in Israeli and U.S. Combat Veterans. Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Dec;172(12):1233-41. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.14121578. Epub 2015 Jul 24. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D013313 | Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic |
| ID | Term |
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| D040921 | Stress Disorders, Traumatic |
| D000068099 | Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
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