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Effects of emotion recognition training on mood among individuals with high levels of depressive symptoms: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in Trials, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02550379 (Emotion Recognition Training for Socially Anxious Adolescents), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Emotion Recognition Training for Socially Anxious Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Acceptability of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Depression and Anxiety: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Psychotropic treatments in Prader-Willi syndrome: a critical review of published literature.European journal of pediatrics · 2016Pooled it
- Interpretation bias training for bipolar disorder: A randomized controlled trial.Journal of affective disorders · 2021Trial
- An interactive training programme to treat body image disturbance.British journal of health psychology · 2017Trial
- Early effects of duloxetine on emotion recognition in healthy volunteers.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2015Trial
- Depressive symptoms are associated with impaired body affect recognition for neutral expressions.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- From Neural Networks to Emotional Networks: A Systematic Review of EEG-Based Emotion Recognition in Cognitive Neuroscience and Real-World Applications.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Sleep and Healthy Aging Research on Depression (SHARE-D) randomized controlled trial: Protocol overview of an experimental model of depression with insomnia, inflammation, and affect mechanisms in older adults.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2023Article
- An integrated review of social information processing as a mechanism in the association between maltreatment and depression among youth of color.Child abuse & neglect · 2023Review
- Emotional awareness, empathy, and generosity in high-risk youths.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2021Article
- Pediatric anxiety associated with altered facial emotion recognition.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2021Article
- MAP1B mutations cause intellectual disability and extensive white matter deficit.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Cognitive bias modification for facial interpretation: a randomized controlled trial of transfer to self-report and cognitive measures in a healthy sample.Royal Society open science · 2017Article
- Music training and empathy positively impact adults' sensitivity to infant distress.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
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5 authors.
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Abstract
backgroundWe have developed a new paradigm that targets the recognition of facial expression of emotions. Here we report the protocol of a randomised controlled trial of the effects of emotion recognition training on mood in a sample of individuals with depressive symptoms over a 6-week follow-up period. METHODS/
designWe will recruit 190 adults from the general population who report high levels of depressive symptoms (defined as a score ≥ 14 on the Beck Depression Inventory-II). Participants will attend a screening session and will be randomised to intervention or control procedures, repeated five times over consecutive days (Monday to Friday). A follow-up session will take place at end-of -treatment, 2-weeks and 6-weeks after training. Our primary study outcome will be depressive symptoms, Beck Depression Inventory- II (rated over the past two weeks). Our secondary outcomes are: depressive symptoms, Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression; anxiety symptoms, Beck Anxiety Inventory (rated over the past month); positive affect, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (rated as 'how you feel right now'); negative affect, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (rated as 'how you feel right now'); emotion sensitivity, Emotion Recognition Task (test phase); approach motivation and persistence, the Fishing Game; and depressive interpretation bias, Scrambled Sentences Test. DISCUSSION: This study is of a novel cognitive bias modification technique that targets biases in emotional processing characteristic of depression, and can be delivered automatically via computer, Internet or Smartphone. It therefore has potential to be a valuable cost-effective adjunctive treatment for depression which may be used together with more traditional psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy and pharmacotherapy.
trial registrationCurrent Controlled Trials: ISRCTN17767674.
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