TY - JOUR
T1 - Attention bias modification treatment
T2 - A meta-analysis toward the establishment of novel treatment for anxiety
AU - Hakamata, Yuko
AU - Lissek, Shmuel
AU - Bar-Haim, Yair
AU - Britton, Jennifer C.
AU - Fox, Nathan A.
AU - Leibenluft, Ellen
AU - Ernst, Monique
AU - Pine, Daniel S.
PY - 2010/12/1
Y1 - 2010/12/1
N2 - Background Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) is a newly emerging, promising treatment for anxiety disorders. Although recent randomized control trials (RCTs) suggest that ABMT reduces anxiety, therapeutic effects have not been summarized quantitatively. Methods Standard meta-analytic procedures were used to summarize the effect of ABMT on anxiety. With MEDLINE, January 1995 to February 2010, we identified RCTs comparing the effects on anxiety of ABMT and quantified effect sizes with Hedge's d. Results Twelve studies met inclusion criteria, including 467 participants from 10 publications. Attention Bias Modification Treatment produced significantly greater reductions in anxiety than control training, with a medium effect (d = .61, p < .001). Age and gender did not moderate the effect of ABMT on anxiety, whereas several characteristics of the ABMT training did. Conclusions Attention Bias Modification Treatment shows promise as a novel treatment for anxiety. Additional RCTs are needed to fully evaluate the degree to which these findings replicate and apply to patients. Future work should consider the precise role for ABMT in the broader anxiety-disorder therapeutic armamentarium.
AB - Background Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) is a newly emerging, promising treatment for anxiety disorders. Although recent randomized control trials (RCTs) suggest that ABMT reduces anxiety, therapeutic effects have not been summarized quantitatively. Methods Standard meta-analytic procedures were used to summarize the effect of ABMT on anxiety. With MEDLINE, January 1995 to February 2010, we identified RCTs comparing the effects on anxiety of ABMT and quantified effect sizes with Hedge's d. Results Twelve studies met inclusion criteria, including 467 participants from 10 publications. Attention Bias Modification Treatment produced significantly greater reductions in anxiety than control training, with a medium effect (d = .61, p < .001). Age and gender did not moderate the effect of ABMT on anxiety, whereas several characteristics of the ABMT training did. Conclusions Attention Bias Modification Treatment shows promise as a novel treatment for anxiety. Additional RCTs are needed to fully evaluate the degree to which these findings replicate and apply to patients. Future work should consider the precise role for ABMT in the broader anxiety-disorder therapeutic armamentarium.
KW - Anxiety disorders
KW - Attention bias modification treatment
KW - Cognitive bias
KW - Meta-analysis
KW - Novel treatment
KW - Psychotherapy
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U2 - 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.07.021
DO - 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.07.021
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AN - SCOPUS:78349293278
SN - 0006-3223
VL - 68
SP - 982
EP - 990
JO - Biological Psychiatry
JF - Biological Psychiatry
IS - 11
ER -