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Intervention Effect of Emotional Working Memory Training on University Students With Depressive Symptom

NCT05861414 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2023-05-16

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Summary

Objective: To investigate the effects of emotional working memory training (EWM-T) on depressive symptoms and rumination among university students.

Methods: The experimental group comprised 25 participants who underwent 21 days of emotional working memory training, which involved viewing a continuous stream of negative emotional face content on a grid and remembering the faces and locations presented on the grid. The control group consisted of 25 participants. The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), the Chinese version of the Character-Digital Breadth Test, and the Ruminative Responses Scale (RRS) were used as the pre- and post-test indicators.

Conditions

  • Depressive Symptoms

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

EWM-T

This paradigm was adapted from the n-back program described by Jaeggi et al. (2009) and comprised an affective dual n-back task consisting of a series of trials, each of which simultaneously presented a face (for 500 ms) on a 4 × 4 grid on a monitor. Intermediate interval 2500ms, during which, Participants press a button to determine if the current face or position is consistent with the first n. If the position is the same, press "F"; if the face is the same, press "J"; if the face and position are not the same, do not react. The faces used in this training were selected from the Chinese Facial Emotional Picture System (CFAPS), and 12 faces (six male and six female) with fear, anger, disgust, and sadness were selected as n-back experimental materials.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Yu-hua Weng

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-10-11
Primary Completion
2022-11-11
Completion
2023-03-21

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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