PTSD
Conditions
Brief 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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALAttention 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).
BEHAVIORALComparison Task
Neutral- neutral stimuli prior to response task
Sponsors
Creighton University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE (Subject, Caregiver)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
7 Years to 15 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* significant symptoms of PTSD and qualifying traumatic event
Exclusion criteria
* new traumatic event within one month of beginning the trial
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms from pre to post test | 10 minute long administration, given twice to measure change scores from pre and post training approximately 1 month apart | PTSD self-report questionnaire |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed