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ArticleTherapeutic advances in psychopharmacology2024

Attentional bias modification and attention control training in PTSD: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Fan Zhang, Chenwei Huang, Wenjie Yan, Hui Ouyang, Weizhi Liu

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Article in Therapeutic advances in psychopharmacology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fan ZhangLab for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Faculty of Psychology, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2961-6752
Chenwei HuangFaculty of Psychology, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.
Wenjie YanLab for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Faculty of Psychology, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.
Hui OuyangLab for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Faculty of Psychology, Naval Medical University, #800 Xiangyin Road, Shanghai 200433, China.
Weizhi LiuLab for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Faculty of Psychology, Naval Medical University, #800 Xiangyin Road, Shanghai 200433, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6836-5522
Second Military Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Cognitive models of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) highlighted the effect of maladaptive cognitive processing in the development and maintenance of PTSD. PTSD is related to attentional bias (AB) toward threatening stimuli and greater attentional bias variability (ABV). Attentional bias modification (ABM) and attention control training (ACT) have demonstrated the effect of improving PTSD, but the results of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are controversial. Objectives: The current study aimed to evaluate the extent of evidence supporting the efficacy of ABM in the treatment of PTSD. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Methods: We searched PUBMED, PsycINFO, EMBASE, ClinicalTrials.gov, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials for articles published between 1980 and 2022. RCTs of ABM for adult participants with PTSD symptoms were identified. The primary outcome was changes in PTSD severity, and the second outcome was changes in AB and ABV. Trial quality was assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool. Publication bias was assessed using the Doi plot and Luis Furuya-Kanamori ( Results: Eight RCTs comparing the effect of ABM to ACT were included in the review, and six studies were meta-analyzed. Meta-analysis favored ACT in improving PTSD symptoms and ABV, and the effect size was large. ABM and ACT demonstrated similar effects in improving AB. Conclusion: ACT should not only be seen as a control training condition but also has therapeutic values. However, since the current meta-analysis only included a limited number of studies, further research was still needed to examine the clinical value of ACT in PTSD treatment.

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attentional biasattentional bias modificationPTSDtrauma

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