Yuki Imamatsu, Yuka Iwata, Ayuka Yokoyama, Yuko Tanaka, Etsuko Tadaka
Empowering Community Health Workers in Japan: Determinants of Non-Communicable Disease Prevention Competency
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
attention bias modification treatment abmt newly emerging promising treatment anxiety disorders although recent randomized control trials rcts suggest abmt reduces anxiety therapeutic effects summarized quantitativelystandard metaanalytic procedures used summarize effect abmt anxiety medline january 1995 february 2010 identified rcts comparing effects anxiety abmt quantified effect sizes hedges dtwelve studies met inclusion criteria including 467 participants 10 publications attention bias modification treatment produced significantly greater reductions anxiety control training medium effect 51 corrected p 001 age gender moderate effect abmt anxiety whereas several characteristics abmt training didattention bias modification treatment shows promise novel treatment anxiety additional rcts needed fully evaluate degree findings replicate apply patients future work consider precise role abmt broader anxietydisorder therapeutic armamentarium