Investigating Attention Patterns in Young People With Anxiety

NCT ID: NCT03546946

Last Updated: 2019-03-25

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

99 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-06-05

Study Completion Date

2020-01-31

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Anxiety Adolescent Behavior

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

FACTORIAL

Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Participants Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Gaze-Contingent Music Reward Training

GCMRT for eight 20-minute sessions - twice per week over 4 weeks.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Gaze-Contingent Music Reward Training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

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

Control Training

Passive viewing task with continuous music for eight 20-minute sessions - twice per week over 4 weeks.

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Control Training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

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

No-Train Group

No active training.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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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.

Intervention Type 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.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* 12-18 years of age upon study commencement
* Diagnosed generalised or social anxiety disorder (assessed by SCID)
* Informed written and witnessed consent

Exclusion Criteria

* Psychosis
* Autism
* Learning difficulties
* Uncorrected abnormal vision
* Current use of SSRIs
Minimum Eligible Age

12 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

King's College London

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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King's College London

London, England, United Kingdom

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United Kingdom

Central Contacts

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Jennifer Lau

Role: CONTACT

+44 20 7848 0678

Stephen Lisk

Role: CONTACT

+44 20 7848 0978

Facility Contacts

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Jennifer Lau

Role: primary

Stephen Lisk

Role: backup

Other Identifiers

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225926

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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