Cognitive and physiological risk factors of intrusive memories: An analog study

Cognitive and physiological risk factors of intrusive memories: An analog study - TFS

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00022086

Enrollment

131

Registered

2020-06-05

Start date

2019-04-16

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

Healthy participants

Interventions

Group 1: Participants first complete a number of tests and questionnaires to assess pretrauma risk factors. These factors are intelligence, working memory capacity, rumination, dissociation, sleep qua

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 35 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: University student, normal or corrected-to-normal vision, fluent in German

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: No current or previous neurological or mental disorders, and no lifetime trauma exposure

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Outcome: Intrusions (documented in an Intrusion Diary and during an Intrusion Provocation Task) Risk factors: Intelligence and Working memory Memory disorganization and rumination Heart rate variability and dissociation Core beliefs and sense of coherence Sleep quality and trauma thoughts before sleep	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Demographic variables, mood changes during the experimental manipulation, manipulation checks	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactRoxanne Sopp

Universität des Saarlandes

roxanne.sopp@uni-saarland.de0681 302 71036

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026