MedTrace Logo

Attentional Bias Modification Through Eye-tracker Methodology (ABMET)

NCT02847793 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 32

Last updated 2018-10-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Cognitive biases are a hallmark of depression but there is scarce research on whether these biases can be directly modified by using specific cognitive training techniques.

The aim of this study will be targeting and modifying specifically relevant attention biases in participants with subclinical depression using eye-tracking methodologies. This innovative approach has been proposed as a promising future line of intervention in Attention Bias Modification procedures (Koster \& Hoorelbeke, 2015).

Recent findings suggest that depression is characterized by a double attentional bias (Duque \& Vazquez, 2015), More specifically, depressed individuals have difficulties both to disengage from negative materials (e.g., sad faces) and to engage with positive materials (e.g., happy faces). Thus, training procedures to change attentional biases should target these two separate components.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Gaze training

Participants are required to maintain their gaze in a given picture (e.g., a happy face), for a given time (i.e., 750ms vs 1500 ms) to advance to the next trial. (A total of 576 trials will be distributed in a 2-day intervention).

BEHAVIORAL

Placebo intervention

Participants are exposed to the same amount of time to the experimental stimuli used in the experimental group but there is no contingency between participants' gaze patterns and the end of each of the 576 trials.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Spain

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carmelo Vazquez, Ph.D: · Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-04-01
Primary Completion
2017-04-01
Completion
2017-07-28

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

More Related Trials

Entities

Diseases

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT02847793 on ClinicalTrials.gov