Attention Training as a Low-Intensity Treatment for Concerning Anxiety in Clinic-Referred Youth.

ABSTRACT: Although youth anxiety treatment research has focused largely on severe and impairing anxiety levels, even milder anxiety levels, including levels that do not meet full criteria for a diagnosis, can be impairing and cause for concern. There is a need to develop and test viable treatments for these concerning anxiety levels to improve functioning and reduce distress. We present findings from a randomized controlled efficacy trial of attention bias modification treatment (ABMT) and attention control training (ACT) for youths with concerning anxiety levels. Fifty-three clinic-referred youths (29 boys, M age = 9.3 years, SD age = 2.6) were randomized to either ABMT or ACT. ABMT and ACT consisted of attention-training trials in a dot-probe task presenting angry and neutral faces; probes appeare

SUBMITTER: Pettit JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9825787 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature