TY - JOUR
T1 - Bias-contingent attention bias modification and attention control training in treatment of PTSD
T2 - a randomized control trial
AU - Lazarov, Amit
AU - Suarez-Jimenez, Benjamin
AU - Abend, Rany
AU - Naim, Reut
AU - Shvil, Erel
AU - Helpman, Liat
AU - Zhu, Xi
AU - Papini, Santiago
AU - Duroski, Ariel
AU - Rom, Rony
AU - Schneier, Franklin R.
AU - Pine, Daniel S.
AU - Bar-Haim, Yair
AU - Neria, Yuval
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Cambridge University Press 2018.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - 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 symptoms on both clinician-rated and self-reported measures compared with BC-ABM. The BC-ABM condition successfully shifted ABs in the intended training direction. In the ACT group, there was no significant change in ABV or AB from pre- to post-treatment.Conclusions The current RCT extends previous results in being the first to apply ABM that is contingent upon AB at pre-treatment. This personalized BC-ABM approach is associated with significant reductions in symptoms. However, ACT produces even greater reductions, thereby emerging as a promising treatment for PTSD.
AB - 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 symptoms on both clinician-rated and self-reported measures compared with BC-ABM. The BC-ABM condition successfully shifted ABs in the intended training direction. In the ACT group, there was no significant change in ABV or AB from pre- to post-treatment.Conclusions The current RCT extends previous results in being the first to apply ABM that is contingent upon AB at pre-treatment. This personalized BC-ABM approach is associated with significant reductions in symptoms. However, ACT produces even greater reductions, thereby emerging as a promising treatment for PTSD.
KW - Attention bias modification (ABM)
KW - attention bias
KW - attention control training (ACT)
KW - posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
KW - randomized control trial (RCT)
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U2 - 10.1017/S0033291718003367
DO - 10.1017/S0033291718003367
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AN - SCOPUS:85056585558
SN - 0033-2917
VL - 49
SP - 2432
EP - 2440
JO - Psychological Medicine
JF - Psychological Medicine
IS - 14
ER -