Can your phone help heal trauma? remote PTSD study tests new approach

NCT ID NCT04888169

Summary

This study tested whether simple attention training exercises on a smartphone could help reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Researchers enrolled over 1,300 adults with significant PTSD symptoms to try different types of daily training for two weeks. The goal was to see if changing how people pay attention to threats could ease their trauma symptoms, with all activities done remotely from home.

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Locations

  • Tommy Atwater

    San Francisco, California, 94143, United States

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