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Investigating Attention Patterns in Young People With Anxiety

NCT03546946 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 99

Last updated 2019-03-25

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Summary

Adolescents with elevated anxiety have been found to direct their voluntary and involuntary attention more readily toward threatening stimuli, and spend more time dwelling upon that stimuli. Various computerised tasks have been developed to attempt to retrain these "attention biases" back away from threat.

This study will test a newly developed intervention, that uses (eye-tracking) methods to track the gaze of the individual. This intervention is called Gaze-Contingent Music Reward Training (GC-MRT), and is designed to re-train the individual away from dwelling upon threatening stimuli (emotional faces), using their favourite music to re-infornce this learning.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Gaze-Contingent Music Reward Training

Participants will hear their selected music track playing, dependent on their gaze location, when viewing a grid on neutral and negative faces.

BEHAVIORAL

Control Training

Participants will hear their selected music track playing, regardless of their gaze location, when viewing a grid on neutral and negative faces.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-06-05
Primary Completion
2020-01-31
Completion
2020-01-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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