Attention Control Training for PTSD in Children

February 6, 2024 updated by: Amy Badura Brack, Creighton University

Randomized Clinical Trial of Attention Control Training for Symptoms of PTSD in Children

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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

89

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Nebraska
      • Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68178
        • Creighton Univeristy

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

7 years to 15 years (Child)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • significant symptoms of PTSD and qualifying traumatic event

Exclusion Criteria:

  • new traumatic event within one month of beginning the trial

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Double

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Attention Control Training
  • 6 sessions in the clinic lasting approximately 10 minutes each.
  • Each session will consist of 128 presentations of pairs of neutral and threatening stimuli, followed by the presentation of a response cue (right or left arrow to be clicked on a computer keyboard).
Behavioral: Attention 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).
Placebo Comparator: Comparison Task

6 sessions in the clinic of a presumably inactive neutral-neutral stimuli intervention lasting approximately 10 minutes each.

• Each session will consist of 128 presentations of pairs of faces, followed by the presentation of a response cue (right or left arrow to be clicked on a computer keyboard).
Behavioral: Comparison Task
Neutral- neutral stimuli prior to response task

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms from pre to post test
Time Frame: 10 minute long administration, given twice to measure change scores from pre and post training approximately 1 month apart
PTSD self-report questionnaire
10 minute long administration, given twice to measure change scores from pre and post training approximately 1 month apart

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Creighton University

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

November 20, 2017

Primary Completion (Actual)

November 20, 2023

Study Completion (Actual)

November 20, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 16, 2017

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 20, 2017

First Posted (Actual)

November 21, 2017

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

February 8, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 6, 2024

Last Verified

February 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 1123267

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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