Seeking neutral: A VR-based person-identity-matching task for attentional bias modification - A randomised controlled experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Attentional bias modification (ABM) aims to reduce anxiety by attenuating bias towards threatening information. The current study incorporated virtual reality (VR) technology and 3-dimensional stimuli with a person-identity-matching (PIM) task to evaluate the effects of a VR-based ABM training on attentional bias and anxiety symptoms.

Methods

One hundred participants with elevated social anxiety were randomised to four training groups. Attentional bias was assessed at pre- and post-training, and anxiety symptoms were assessed at pre-training, post-training, 1-week follow-up, and 3-month follow-up.

Results

Change in anxiety did not correlate with change in bias (r = -0.08). A repeated-measures ANOVA showed no significant difference in bias from pre- t

SUBMITTER: Ma L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7452567 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature