Attention Control Training for PTSD in Children

PTSD Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03348540
• Other study ID #: 1123267
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 20, 2017
• Est. completion date: November 20, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: February 2024
• Source: Creighton University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 89
• Est. completion date: November 20, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: November 20, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 7 Years to 15 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• significant symptoms of PTSD and qualifying traumatic event

Exclusion Criteria:

• new traumatic event within one month of beginning the trial

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• PTSD

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Attention Control Training
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
Neutral- neutral stimuli prior to response task

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Creighton Univeristy	Omaha	Nebraska

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Creighton University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (1)

Badura-Brack AS, Naim R, Ryan TJ, Levy O, Abend R, Khanna MM, McDermott TJ, Pine DS, Bar-Haim Y. Effect of Attention Training on Attention Bias Variability and PTSD Symptoms: Randomized Controlled Trials in Israeli and U.S. Combat Veterans. Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Dec;172(12):1233-41. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.14121578. Epub 2015 Jul 24. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms from pre to post test	PTSD self-report questionnaire	10 minute long administration, given twice to measure change scores from pre and post training approximately 1 month apart