Bias-contingent attention bias modification and attention control training in treatment of PTSD: a randomized control trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Randomized control trials (RCTs) comparing attention control training (ACT) and attention bias modification (ABM) in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have shown mixed results. The current RCT extends the extant literature by comparing the efficacy of ACT and a novel bias-contingent-ABM (BC-ABM), in which direction of training is contingent upon the direction of pre-treatment attention bias (AB), in a sample of civilian patients with PTSD.

Methods

Fifty treatment-seeking civilian patients with PTSD were randomly assigned to either ACT or BC-ABM. Clinician and self-report measures of PTSD and depression, as well as AB and attention bias variability (ABV), were acquired pre- and post-treatment.

Results

ACT yielded greater reductions in PTSD and depressive

SUBMITTER: Lazarov A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6520210 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature