Effect of Attentional Control Training on Death Anxiety

Effectiveness of Attentional Control Training on Attentional Bias Towards Death-Related Stimuli, the Level of Death anxiety, and the Level of Sensitivity to Mortality Salience

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

IRCT

Registry ID

IRCT20190406043181N1

Enrollment

Registered

2020-01-03

Start date

2019-09-23

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

Death Anxiety.

Interventions

Intervention 1: Intervention group: Receive the computerized attentional control training program for death-related stimuli in 4 sessions across 2 weeks. In each session of this program, the participa

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 30 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Having sufficient ability to use a computer

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Having difficult to cure or incurable physical illnesses Having a traumatic experience in the past year Encountering the death of an acquaintance in the past year Having close people (or the responsibility to care for people) dealing with imminent death

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Attentional bias towards death-related stimuli. Timepoint: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3-months follow-up. Method of measurement: Modified stroop test.;Level of death anxiety. Timepoint: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3-months follow-up. Method of measurement: Multidimensional fear of death scale.;Level of sensitivity to mortality salience. Timepoint: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3-months follow-up. Method of measurement: Moral disengagement scale after causing mortality salience through writing two sentences about one's death.	—

Measure

Time frame

Attentional bias towards death-related stimuli. Timepoint: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3-months follow-up. Method of measurement: Modified stroop test.;Level of death anxiety. Timepoint: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3-months follow-up. Method of measurement: Multidimensional fear of death scale.;Level of sensitivity to mortality salience. Timepoint: Pre-intervention, post-intervention, 3-months follow-up. Method of measurement: Moral disengagement scale after causing mortality salience through writing two sentences about one's death.

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Countries

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Contacts

Public ContactSaeed Nasiry

Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

snasiry@sbmu.ac.ir+98 86 3328 8724

Outcome results

None listed

Source: IRCT (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 13, 2026