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The Effect of Attention Bias Modification Training on Reducing Depressive Symptoms

NCT01628016 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 77

Last updated 2020-08-14

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to test whether attention bias modification training is an effective neurobehavioral therapy to improve depressive symptoms.That is whether attention bias modification training is superior to placebo in reducing depressive symptoms over 1 year after training.

Conditions

  • Depressive Symptoms

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

a word dot-probe task for training procedure

In the word dot-probe task for training procedure of attention bias modification, 90% of the targets appeared at the neutral word position and 10% at the sad word position.In the placebo condition, the targets appeared with equal probability in the sad (50%) and neutral (50%) word positions.All participants in ABM and placebo conditions received eight 12-min training sessions over a 2-week period.During each session, participants completed 216 word dot-probe trials.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hunan Normal University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Wenhui Yang, Ph.D · Department of Psychology, Hunan Normal University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-09-30
Primary Completion
2013-07-31
Completion
2013-07-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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