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Mental Flexibility

NCT04135001 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 500

Last updated 2021-04-08

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Summary

The main purpose of this research is evaluate if HBMT reduces HAB in Soldiers, reduces intra-team conflict, improves trust, and improves unit cohesion. A secondary purpose of this research is to test Soldier acceptability and perception of the training. Volunteers will be randomized to a training or placebo version of a computer task designed to reduce HAB and interpersonal conflict. Soldiers will then complete surveys at multiple time intervals before, during, and following deployment. If successful, this research would demonstrate the ability of a computer based training to improve unit cohesion and Soldier attitudes during pre-deployment training and deployment itself.

Conditions

  • Anger
  • Hostility

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

HBM Training

A computer-based training to reduce hostile bias and interpersonal conflict as a mechanism to improve trust and cohesion within an operational military unit across the deployment cycle. The computer training is based on the Go/No-Go task (Fillmore et al., 2006) and Lexical Decision Task (Lepore \& Brown, 2002). The training reduces HAB by affecting two cognitive mechanisms: prime seeking non-hostile concepts when presented with ambiguous cues and conditioning inhibition in response to hostile cues. Thus, the training induces a non-hostile attribution bias while simultaneously training the inhibition of hostile attribution bias and aggressive behavior in response to ambiguous cues.

OTHER

Placebo Training

Volunteers in the placebo condition will be told to complete the fragments with the first word that comes to mind. This placebo still exposes volunteers to the training stimuli and computer task, but does not train inhibition or selectively prime non-hostility, which are the hypothesized mechanisms of the training.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR)

    lead FED

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-08-06
Primary Completion
2023-08-06
Completion
2024-08-06

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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