Attention Control Training for PTSD in Children

Participants will complete a pre and post training psychological assessment. Participants will be assigned to attention control training or the comparison stimuli computer task in a double-blind randomized control trial design. Both computerized dot probe tasks display two faces on a computer screen, one above the other, followed by a small right or left arrow appearing in the location vacated by one of the faces. Participants are required to respond as quickly as they can by pressing the indicated right or left arrow on their computer keyboard without compromising accuracy. Participants complete 6 training sessions.

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Key information

Conditions

PTSD Mental Disorders Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Traumatic Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders

Age range

7 year–15 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Creighton Univeristy

Omaha, Nebraska, 68178, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

significant symptoms of PTSD and qualifying traumatic event

Exclusion criteria

new traumatic event within one month of beginning the trial

Treatment and study plan

Attention Control Training

Behavioral

Attention control training teaches participants that the emotional salience of cues (i.e., threatening or neutral) is not related to successful completion of the computerized response task, and thus, teaches participants to ignore irrelevant threat-related contingencies (Badura-Brack et al., 2015).

Comparison Task

Behavioral

Neutral- neutral stimuli prior to response task

Primary outcomes

Change in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms from pre to post test

Time frame: 10 minute long administration, given twice to measure change scores from pre and post training approximately 1 month apart

PTSD self-report questionnaire

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Creighton University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Randomized Clinical Trial of Attention Control Training for Symptoms of PTSD in Children

Important dates

Study start: 2017
Primary completion: 2023
Study completion: 2023
First posted: Nov 21, 2017
Registry last updated: Feb 8, 2024

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