An interventional study of attention modification and Placebo in Phobia, Social, sponsored by Tel Aviv University. Completed at 1 site in Israel. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 60 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-07-28.
Sponsored by Tel Aviv University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The purpose of this study is to determine whether giving gaze-contingent feedback is an effective attention modification procedure, helping in the treatment of social anxiety disorder (SAD)
The study examines giving social anxious participants gaze-contingent feedback as a novel attention training procedure. Half of the participants will receive contingent feedback while the other half would receive non-contingent "placebo" feedback.
348 studies on the registry are indexed under Phobia, Social; 61 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 40 is below the median of 80 across 320 interventional studies indexed under Phobia, Social.
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Exclusion Criteria:
attention modification: participants will receive gaze-contingent feedback according to their viewing patterns
Behavioral: attention modification
Placebo: participants will receive non-gaze-contingent feedback according to their viewing patterns
Other: Placebo
participants will receive gaze-continent feedback according to their viewing patterns
participants will receive non-gaze-continent feedback unrelated to their viewing patterns
Change from baseline - the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale - Diagnostic Interview scores
The LSAS is a 24-item scale, each item corresponding to a situation selected on the basis of clinical experience. Each item is rated on a severity scale ranging from 0 to 3 with regard to the passing week, measuring separately two components of social anxiety, specifically, fear/anxiety and avoidance of social interaction and performance situations. Although the assessor may request and ask for further detail and adjust the rating based on clinical experience, this option is not often exercised, and inter-rater agreement is not considered to be a relevant concern. It has been shown to have strong psychometric properties, including high internal consistency, strong convergent and discriminative validity and high test-retest reliability.
Time frame: post treatment (1 week after treatment completion) and 3-month follow up
Change from baseline - the Social Phobia Inventory scores
This is a 17-item self-report measure of social anxiety evaluating fear, avoidance and physiological discomfort. Each item is rated on scale ranging from 0 to 4 with a possible total score of 68. The SPIN has been used in clinical and nonclinical samples and its psychometric properties have been found to be sound.
Time frame: post treatment (1 week after treatment completion) and 3-month follow up
changes in the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (M.I.N.I) diagnosis
a structured diagnostic interview for DSM - IV and ICD-10 psychiatric disorders, which takes approximately 20 min to administer and is a valid and time-efficient alternative to the SCID-P and CIDI.
Time frame: post treatment (1 week after treatment completion)
This study is completed, as verified in Jul 2016. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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