Attentional Bias in Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Massachusetts General Hospital51 enrolled

Overview

Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) participants will demonstrate greater attentional biases as compared to healthy control (HC) participants. Greater attention bias will be associated with greater distress. Greater attention bias will be associated with greater symptom severity.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Body Dysmorphic Disorders

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria for BDD and healthy control participants: * males and females 18 years of age or older * sufficient fluency of English to understand study staff, procedures, and questionnaires * ability to provide informed consent Inclusion for BDD participants only; * primary diagnosis of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 4th Edition (DSM-IV-TR) BDD * BDD Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Disorder score (Y-BOCS) of \> 20 * primary facial/head concern Exclusion Criteria: * Major medical or neurological conditions * schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or any other current lifetime DSM-IV psychotic disorder that is not attributable to delusional BDD * current suicidality * current homicidality Exclusion criteria for healthy controls: * Any current Axis I psychiatric illness * history of BDD

Locations (1)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Attention Pattern

Gaze tracking via an Eyelink II eye tracker will determine perception of visual information.

Time frame: Day 2

Secondary Outcomes

Subjective Units of Distress Scale (SUDS)

Participants will provide a distress score based on the facial images observed.

Time frame: Day 2

Facial Attractiveness

Using a 9-point Likert scale, participants will rate the perceived most attractive and unattractive feature of their own and the control face.

Time frame: Day 2

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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