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NCT Number: NCT01368302

Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) for Patients With Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Patients with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) will be randomly assigned to either Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) designed to normalize threat-related attention biases or a placebo control condition not designed to change attention patterns. Outcome measures will be Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety symptoms as measured by gold standard questionnaires and symptom counts derived from structured clinical interviews.

We expect to see significant Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptom reduction in the Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) group relative to the placebo control group in which no symptomatic relief is expected.

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Key information

Conditions

Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) Anxiety Disorders Mental Disorders

Sex eligibility

Male

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 2

Primary location

Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Combat-related PTSD diagnosis

Exclusion criteria

  • Other treatment

Treatment and study plan

Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT)

Behavioral

Attention training using a computerized spatial attention task (dot-probe) modified to alter threat-related attention patterns.

Primary outcomes

  1. Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS)

    Time frame: 40 minutes

    The clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) is a 30-item structured interview that corresponds to the DSM-IV criteria for PTSD (Blake, Weathers, Nagy, Kaloupek, Charney, & Keane, 1995).

Secondary outcomes

  1. PTSD Check List (PCL)

    Time frame: 10 minutes

    Post-traumatic Stress symptoms will be evaluated using the 17-item National Center for PTSD Checklist of the Department of Veterans Affairs- PCL (Blanchard, Jones-Alexander, Buckley, & Forneris, 1996; Hoge, 2004; Kang, Natelson, Mahan, Lee, & Murphy, 2003).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Tel Aviv University

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2011
Primary completion
2013
Study completion
2013
First posted
Jun 7, 2011
Registry last updated
Dec 2, 2014

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