Attention Training for Underserved Youth With Anxiety
Anxiety
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Anxiety focused on measuring attention training, youth, latino
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
1. Children and parents of children ages 8 through 17 inclusive at the time of initial evaluation 2. Clinically significant levels of anxiety as measured by self-report 3. Unmedicated or on stable medication treatment for at least 6 weeks prior to study entry, with no planned changes for duration of study participation.
4. Child is fluent English or Spanish speaker, given that all of our assessments as well as the language-based treatment protocol have thus far only been validated in English and Spanish.
5. Parental Informed Consent and Child Informed Assent. Parents must agree to their child's participation in this protocol. Parents will be asked to fill out self-report questionnaires and participate in assessments that will provide us with more information about their child, however parents are not considered "participants" within this protocol, as all treatment is targeted toward their child.
6. Child self-identifies as Latino/Hispanic
Exclusion Criteria:
- Excessive or Problematic Substance Use as reported per initial telephone screening, or significant disruptive behavior problems within the past 3 months.
- Indication of clinically significant suicidality, mania, or psychotic disorder.
- Any serious psychiatric, psychosocial, or neurological condition (i.e., ADHD, tourettes, anxiety, severe aggression) requiring immediate treatment.
Sites / Locations
- Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo healthcare system
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Sham Comparator
Attention Modification Training
Attention Control Training
Attention Modification Program Active computer-based attention training treatment designed to directly but implicitly modify biased attention patterns in anxious patients in service of symptom relief. AMP is a modified version of the dot-probe paradigm similar to the original task used by MacLeod, Mathews, and Tata. This paradigm has been modified to facilitate an attention bias away from threatening material. In this case, the probe always replaces the neutral stimuli.
Placebo Comparator: Attention Control Condition Control computer-based attention training task, which is not designed to modify biased attention patterns in anxious patients. ACC is a modified version of the dot-probe paradigm similar to the original task used by MacLeod, Mathews, and Tata. In this case, the probe randomly replaces the neutral stimuli or the threat stimuli.