Trial reportJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry2014
Attention bias modification treatment augmenting effects on cognitive behavioral therapy in children with anxiety: randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 48 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Augmenting Effects of Attention Bias Modification Treatment on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Anxious Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Examining the Effects of a Combined Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) and Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy (CBGT) for Social Anxiety Disorder
Who cites it
48 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 118 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of Psychotherapy for Internalising Symptoms in Children and Adolescents When Delivered in Routine Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Pooled it
- Gamified Attention Bias Modification Training to Augment Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth Anxiety Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Trial
- Attention Training as a Low-Intensity Treatment for Concerning Anxiety in Clinic-Referred Youth.Behavior therapy · 2023Trial
- Age Moderates Link Between Training Effects and Treatment Response to Attention Bias Modification Treatment for Social Anxiety Disorder.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2019Trial
- Fear extinction learning as a predictor of response to cognitive behavioral therapy for pediatric obsessive compulsive disorder.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2019Trial
- Efficacy of Attention Bias Training for Child Anxiety Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Child psychiatry and human development · 2019Trial
- Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attention Bias Modification for Childhood Anxiety Disorders: A Factorial Randomized Trial of Efficacy.Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology · 2018Trial
- Attention bias modification augments cognitive-behavioral group therapy for social anxiety disorder: a randomized controlled trial.Psychological medicine · 2018Trial
- Biobehavioral Markers of Attention Bias Modification in Temperamental Risk for Anxiety: A Randomized Control Trial.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2018Trial
- Complementary Features of Attention Bias Modification Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders.The American journal of psychiatry · 2017Trial
- Fear conditioning and extinction in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder.Annals of clinical psychiatry : official journal of the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists · 2017Trial
- Gaze-Contingent Music Reward Therapy for Clinically Anxious 7- to 10-Year-Olds: An Open Multiple Baseline Feasibility Study.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Trial
- Self-efficacy effects in combined CBT-attention training for pediatric anxiety.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2026Article
- How Many Anxious Kids in Community Mental Health Would Be Eligible for an RCT? And Does It Matter? Insights from a Naturalistic Sample and a Non-Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Current and Future Approaches to Pediatric Anxiety Disorder Treatment.The American journal of psychiatry · 2024Review
- Novel mechanism-based treatments for pediatric anxiety and depressive disorders.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Review
- Attentional biases in human anxiety.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Review
- An Eye-Tracking Study of Attention Biases in Children at High Familial Risk for Depression and Their Parents with Depression.Child psychiatry and human development · 2022Article
- Whole-Brain Resting-State Functional Connectivity Patterns Associated With Pediatric Anxiety and Involuntary Attention Capture.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2021Article
- Attention Alterations in Pediatric Anxiety: Evidence From Behavior and Neuroimaging.Biological psychiatry · 2021Article
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8 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveAttention bias modification treatment (ABMT) is a promising novel treatment for anxiety disorders, but clinical trials have focused largely on stand-alone formats among adults. This randomized controlled trial examined the augmenting effects of threat-based ABMT on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in clinically anxious youth.
methodSixty-three treatment-seeking children with anxiety disorder were randomly assigned to 1 of the following 3 treatment groups: ABMT + CBT; ABMT placebo + CBT; and CBT-alone. Participants in the 2 ABMT conditions received repeated training on dot-probe tasks either designed to shift attention away from threats (active) or designed to induce no changes in attention patterns (placebo). Primary outcome measures were frequency and severity of anxiety symptoms as determined by a clinician using a semi-structured interview. Self- and parent-rated anxiety measures and threat-related attention bias scores were also measured before and after treatment.
resultsBoth the active and placebo ABMT groups showed greater reductions in clinician-rated anxiety symptoms than the CBT-alone group. Furthermore, only the active ABMT group showed significant reduction in self- or parent-rated anxiety symptoms. Finally, all groups showed a shift in attention patterns across the study, starting with a bias toward threat at baseline and shifting attention away from threat after treatment.
conclusionsActive and placebo ABMT might augment the clinical response to CBT for anxiety. This effect could arise from benefits associated with performing computer-based paradigms such as the dot-probe task. Given the absence of group differences in attention-bias changes during treatment, possible mechanisms and methodological issues underlying the observed findings are discussed. Clinical trial registration information-Augmenting Effects of ABMT on CBT in Anxious Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial; http://clinicaltrials.gov/; NCT01730625.
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