Trial reportJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry2020
A Randomized Controlled Trial of Attention Bias Modification Treatment in Youth With Treatment-Resistant Anxiety Disorders.
Trial report in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01819311 (Attention Bias Modification Training for Child Anxiety CBT Nonresponders), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers.
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Attention Bias Modification Training for Child Anxiety CBT Nonresponders
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- 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 bias vs. attention control modification for social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2024Trial
- Attention Training as a Low-Intensity Treatment for Concerning Anxiety in Clinic-Referred Youth.Behavior therapy · 2023Trial
- Attention Focusing Moderates the Association Between Parent Anxiety and Attention Bias to Threat in Youth with Social Anxiety Disorder.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Role of social competence in emotion processing among emerging adults with anxiety.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Difficult-to-Treat Anxiety: A Neurocomputational Framework.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025Review
- Attentional Control Accounts for the Association Between Anxiety Sensitivity and Sleep Efficiency in Clinic-Referred Youth.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Do youth anxiety measures assess the same construct consistently throughout treatment? Results are...complicated.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Multiple Adaptive Attention-Bias-Modification Programs to Alter Normative Increase in the Error-Related Negativity in Adolescents.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Cognitive Training in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Systematic Review.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2024Review
- Novel mechanism-based treatments for pediatric anxiety and depressive disorders.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Review
- Attention Bias and Anxiety: The Moderating Effect of Sociocultural Variables in Rural Latinx Youth.Community mental health journal · 2023Article
- Does irritability predict attention biases toward threat among clinically anxious youth?European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Pilot study of attentional retraining for postpartum smoking relapse.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- "Unpacking" cultural differences in social anxiety between Japanese and European Americans: the roles of threat appraisal and attentional bias.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Attentional biases in human anxiety.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Review
- Using what we know about threat reactivity models to understand mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Article
- Implementing Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Children and Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders.Klinicheskaia i spetsial'naia psikhologiia = Clinical psychology and special education · 2022Article
- Mapping the Presence of Anxiety Symptoms in Adults With Major Depressive Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Case Series of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation as an Augmentation Strategy for Attention Bias Modification Treatment in Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders.Klinicheskaia i spetsial'naia psikhologiia = Clinical psychology and special education · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveRandomized clinical trials of augmentation strategies for youth with treatment-resistant anxiety disorders do not exist. This report presents findings from an efficacy trial of attention bias modification treatment (ABMT) as an augment for this population compared with attention control training (ACT).
methodSixty-four youths (34 boys; mean age 11.7 years) who continued to meet for anxiety diagnoses after completing cognitive-behavioral therapy were randomized to ABMT or ACT. ABMT and ACT consisted of dot-probe attention training trials presenting angry and neutral faces; probes appeared in the location of neutral faces on 100% of trials in ABMT and 50% of trials in ACT. Independent evaluators, youths, and parents completed ratings of youth anxiety severity, and youths completed measures of attention bias to threat and attention control at pretreatment, post-treatment, and 2-month follow-up.
resultsThe 2 arms showed significant decreases in anxiety severity, with no differences between arms. Specifically, across informants, anxiety severity was significantly decreased at post-treatment and decreases were maintained at follow-up. Primary anxiety disorder diagnostic recovery combined across arms was 50% at post-treatment and 58% at follow-up. Attention control, but not attention bias to threat, was significantly improved at post-treatment in the 2 arms.
conclusionThis is the first study to show anxiety can be decreased in youth who did not respond to cognitive-behaviorial therapy, and that the anxiety-decreasing effect is found using these 2 attention training contingency schedules. These findings and increases in attention control in the 2 arms raise intriguing questions about mechanisms of decreasing anxiety in treatment-resistant youth with attention training that require further research. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Attention Bias Modification Training for Child Anxiety CBT Nonresponders; https://clinicaltrials.gov/; NCT01819311.
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