Investigating Attention Patterns in Young People With Anxiety

Anxiety Clinical Trial

— ATTN-ANX  

Official title:

Investigating Attention Patterns in Young People With Anxiety

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03546946
• Other study ID #: 225926
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 5, 2018
• Est. completion date: January 2020

Study information

• Verified date: March 2019
• Source: King's College London
• Contact: Jennifer Lau
• Phone: +44 20 7848 0678
• Email: jennifer.lau[@]kcl.ac.uk
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 99
• Est. completion date: January 2020
• Est. primary completion date: January 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 12 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adolescent Behavior
• Anxiety
• Anxiety Disorders

Intervention

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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	King's College London	London	England

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
King's College London	South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in anxiety symtoms	Change in anxiety symptoms from baseline at 4-weeks on the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders (KSADS), and at 3-month follow up	Baseline and post-intervention (4 weeks), and at 3-month follow up.
Secondary	Change in Self-report Anxiety	Change in self-report anxiety symptoms from baseline at 4-weeks on the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED), and at 3-month follow up.	Baseline and post-intervention (4 weeks), and at 3-month follow up.
Secondary	Change in Dwell time on negative faces	Change in dwell time on negative faces, from baseline at 4-weeks, using eye-tracking measures on a free-viewing attention task, and at 3-month follow up.	Baseline and post-intervention (4 weeks), and at 3-month follow up.