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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 23.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Jul 24;172(12):1233–1241. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2015.14121578

TABLE 2.

PTSD and Depression Symptom Scores, Threat-Related Attention Bias, and Attention Bias Variability in 46 U.S. Military Veterans Before and After Treatment With Attention Bias Modification or Attention Control Training (Study 2)a

Attention Bias Modification Training
Attention Control Training
Pretreatment
Pretreatment
Pretreatment
Pretreatment
Measure Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD

Clinician-Administered 72.18 3.53 56.19 4.90 72.33 3.00 44.13 4.92
PTSD Scale score
PTSD Checklist score 51.68 2.66 50.17 2.96 54.16 1.82 45.40 3.22
Patient Health Questionnaire score 11.59 1.12 12.01 1.31 11.58 1.26 9.26 1.30
Attention bias (ms)b –1.28 5.50 6.18 5.42 –1.55 6.43 –2.00 5.05
Attention bias variabilityb 0.06 0.01 0.06 0.01 0.06 0.01 0.04 0.00
a

Not all participants provided posttreatment data.

b

Assessed with the dot-probe task (40). See text for description of measures.