U.S., May 2 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07562633) titled 'Proactive Thought Control for Social Anxiety Relief' on April 25.
Brief Summary: This study examines whether a proactive thought control intervention can reduce negative core beliefs, cognitive biases, and anxiety symptoms in university students with social anxiety. Participants with elevated social anxiety (screened via the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale) are randomly assigned to either a proactive thought control group or a reactive control group. Both groups complete two computerized tasks - a Free Association Task and a Sentence Completion Task - across 180 trials. The proactive group is trained to generate only positive or neutra...