A randomized controlled trial of supervised remotely-delivered attention bias modification for posttraumatic stress disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have limited access to first-line treatments, warranting the development of remotely-delivered treatments. Attention bias modification (ABM), targeting perturbed threat-related attentional patterns, shows promise when delivered in-person. However, previous studies found ABM to be ineffective when delivered remotely. Randomized clinical trials usually applied two variations of ABM: ABM away from threat or attention control training (ACT) balancing attention between threat-related and neutral stimuli. We tested remotely-delivered ACT/ABM with tighter supervision and video-based interactions that resemble in-clinic protocols. We expected to replicate the results of in-clinic trials, in which ACT outperformed ABM for

SUBMITTER: Alon Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10248784 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature