Outcome
Type |
Measure |
Description |
Time frame |
Safety issue |
Primary |
Paranoid Ideation for Active vs. Sham Stimulation |
Paranoid ideation will be measured by the State Social Paranoia Scale (SSPS). Participants will indicate how much they agree with each of 20 statements (e.g., "Someone was hostile towards me", "Someone was trying to isolate me") using a 5-point Likert scale (1 = do not agree, 5 = totally agree). Scores range from 20-100, and higher scores represent higher state paranoid ideation. |
The assessment will be completed 30 minutes after completion of the active/sham stimulation |
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Primary |
Paranoid Ideation for Active vs. Sham Stimulation |
Paranoid ideation will be measured by the Hostility Scale of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5-HS). PID-5-HS contains 10 self-report items (e.g., "I snap at people when they do little things that irritate me") assessing pathological hostility on a 4-point scale (0 = very false or often false, 3 = very true or often true), with higher total scores indicating more hostility (range = 0-30). |
The assessment will be completed 30 minutes after completion of the active/sham stimulation |
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Primary |
Paranoid Ideation for Active vs. Sham Stimulation |
Paranoid ideation will be measured by the Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire (AIHQ). Five ambiguous scenarios will be presented to participants, and they will be asked to give reasons why each situation happened, indicate how much they think that people did this to them on purpose, how angry they are, how much they will blame others, and what they will do about it. Responses will be recorded verbatim or based on 6-point (if the behavior is on purpose) and 5-point (how angry they are, how much they will blame others) Likert scales. For the open-ended questions, hostility and aggression biases will be rated by three independent, trained raters using a 5-point Likert scale (1 = not hostile/aggressive at all, 5 = very hostile/aggressive). Inter-rater reliability will be computed by ICC among all the raters, with ICC > .80 being acceptable. |
The assessment will be completed 30 minutes after completion of the active/sham stimulation |
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Primary |
Paranoid Ideation for Active vs. Sham Stimulation |
Paranoid ideation will be measured by the Scrambled-sentences task (SST) |
The assessment will be completed 30 minutes after completion of the active/sham stimulation |
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Primary |
Paranoid Ideation for Active vs. Sham Stimulation |
Paranoid ideation will be measured by the Trustworthiness Task |
The assessment will be completed 30 minutes after completion of the active/sham stimulation |
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Primary |
Paranoid Ideation for Active vs. Sham Stimulation |
Paranoid ideation will be measured by EMA (i.e., questions about feelings of paranoia in daily life). |
Change in daily paranoia feelings will be assessed from the pre-stimulation EMA period (7 days before the stimulation visit) to the post-stimulation EMA period (7 days after the stimulation visit) |
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Primary |
Social functioning for Active vs. Sham Stimulation |
Social functioning will be measured by the Birchwood Social Functioning Scale (SFS). This scale measures social adjustment based on self-reports (4- or 5-point scales), with higher total scores indicating better social functioning (range = 0-223). |
The assessment will be completed 30 minutes after completion of the active/sham stimulation |
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Primary |
Social functioning for Active vs. Sham Stimulation |
Social functioning will be measured by EMA (i.e., questions about daily interactions with others) |
Change in daily interactions will be assessed from the pre-stimulation EMA period (7 days before the stimulation visit) to the post-stimulation EMA period (7 days after the stimulation visit) |
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Primary |
Social functioning for Active vs. Sham Stimulation |
Social functioning will be measured by EMA (i.e., questions about daily experience in social interactions). |
Change in daily experience in social interactions will be assessed from the pre-stimulation EMA period (7 days before the stimulation visit) to the post-stimulation EMA period (7 days after the stimulation visit) |
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Primary |
Social functioning for Active vs. Sham Stimulation |
Social functioning will be measured by EMA (i.e., questions about daily expectations of social interactions). |
Change in daily expectations of social interactions will be assessed from the pre-stimulation EMA period (7 days before the stimulation visit) to the post-stimulation EMA period (7 days after the stimulation visit) |
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