[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"health-studies-list:{\"conditionNormalized\":\"public-speaking-anxiety\",\"overallStatus\":[\"RECRUITING\",\"AVAILABLE\",\"NOT_YET_RECRUITING\"],\"orderBy\":\"LastUpdateSubmitDate:desc\",\"size\":25,\"offset\":0}":3,"health-study-condition:public-speaking-anxiety":191},{"pageToken":4,"total":5,"offset":6,"count":5,"results":7},null,6,0,[8,53,83,110,136,164],{"id":9,"slug":4,"hasResults":10,"nctId":11,"briefTitle":12,"officialTitle":13,"acronym":14,"eligibilityCriteria":15,"healthyVolunteers":10,"sex":16,"minAge":17,"maxAge":18,"enrollmentInfo":19,"targetDuration":4,"studyType":22,"phases":23,"briefSummary":25,"conditions":26,"keywords":32,"overallStatus":40,"whyStopped":4,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":41,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":42,"startDateStruct":45,"completionDateStruct":47,"leadSponsor":49,"locationsCount":52},"100575800",false,"NCT06776991","Reward Processing and Exposure Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder","Reward Processing and Exposure Therapy","METER","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Diagnosis of social anxiety disorder from the Structural Clinical Interview for DSM 5.\n* Elevated fear of public speaking, defined as a score of \\>= 66 (+1SD from the mean of population norms on a scale of 17-85) on the Public Speaking Anxiety Scale (PSAS; Bartholomay, E. M., \\& Houlihan, D. D. (2016). Public Speaking Anxiety Scale: Preliminary psychometric data and scale validation. Personality and individual differences, 94, 211-215), which is a self-report scale measuring anxiety of public speaking.\n* Low reward processing, defined as a score of \\\u003C56 (less than the population mean) on the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS) (Rizvi, S. J., Quilty, L. C., Sproule, B. A., Cyriac, A., Bagby, R. M., \\& Kennedy, S. H. (2015). Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS) \\[Database record\\]. APA PsycTests).\n* Medication-free or stabilized on psychotropic medications for a minimum standard length of time (1 month for benzodiazepines and beta blockers, 3 months for SRIs\u002FSNRIs and heterocyclics).\n* Psychotherapy-free or stabilized on alternative psychotherapies other than cognitive or behavioral therapies that were not focused on their anxiety disorder for at least 6 months prior to study entry.\n* Age 18-60.\n* Fluent in English.\n* To conduct MRI version of fear conditioning task, must have no MRI contraindications.\n\nExclusion Criteria (none of the following):\n\n* Recent suicidal ideation with intent or plan - defined as suicidal ideation with intent or plan in the past year.\n* Lifetime history of suicide attempts.\n* History of bipolar disorder, psychosis, intellectual disability, or organic brain damage.\n* Substance use disorder within the last 6 months.\n* Major respiratory, cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, or muscular-skeletal diseases.\n* Pregnant or planning to become pregnant for next 6 months.","ALL","18 Years","60 Years",{"count":20,"type":21},94,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[24],"NA","The investigators are conducting a clinical trial of therapy for public speaking anxiety. There are many eligibility criteria, but the main ones are that participants need to be socially anxious and have public speaking anxiety. In this clinical trial, all participants will do exposure therapy. Before doing exposure therapy in the study, though, participants will be randomized to do one of two treatments: i) a positive mood treatment, which is designed to increase how positive people feel, and ii) a relaxation treatment, which is designed to help people feel more relaxed. The investigators are doing this study to see whether doing the positive mood treatment or relaxation treatment first will affect how well exposure therapy works.",[27,28,29,30,31],"Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)","Public Speaking Anxiety","Anhedonia","ANXIETY DISORDERS (or Anxiety and Phobic Neuroses)","Phobic Disorders",[33,34,35,28,29,36,37,38,39],"Exposure Therapy","Anxiety","Social Anxiety","Reward Processing","Inhibitory Retrieval","Positive Affect Treatment","Relaxation Treatment","RECRUITING","2026-04-01",{"date":43,"type":44},"2026-04-02","ACTUAL",{"date":46,"type":44},"2024-09-26",{"date":48,"type":21},"2029-04-30",{"name":50,"class":51},"University of California, Los Angeles","OTHER",2,{"id":54,"slug":4,"hasResults":10,"nctId":55,"briefTitle":56,"officialTitle":57,"acronym":58,"eligibilityCriteria":59,"healthyVolunteers":10,"sex":16,"minAge":17,"maxAge":60,"enrollmentInfo":61,"targetDuration":4,"studyType":22,"phases":63,"briefSummary":64,"conditions":65,"keywords":68,"overallStatus":72,"whyStopped":4,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":73,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":74,"startDateStruct":76,"completionDateStruct":78,"leadSponsor":80,"locationsCount":82},"100619960","NCT07351409","VR-Counseling to Reduce Public Speaking Anxiety","Immersive Virtual Reality as a Tool for Reducing Public Speaking Anxiety in Students Accessing the University Psychological Counseling Service: A Randomized Controlled Trial","VR-Counseling","Inclusion criteria are:\n\n1. current enrollment at the university;\n2. request for psychological counseling at the UPCS;\n3. fluency in Italian;\n4. provision of written informed consent;\n5. the presence of at least moderate levels of anxiety and perceived stress, as indicated by scores on standardized assessment instruments. Specifically, scores between STAI scores from 35 to 50 and PRPSA scores from 85 to 110.\n\nExclusion criteria are:\n\n1. current psychotic disorder;\n2. acute suicidality;\n3. severe substance dependence;\n4. severe sensory or motor impairments that would prevent safe use of VR equipment;\n5. inability to attend the planned sessions;\n6. concurrent participation in other specialized psychotherapy programs.","40 Years",{"count":62,"type":21},72,[24],"Public Speaking Anxiety (PSA) is a common manifestation of social anxiety among university students that can negatively impact academic performance and psychological well-being. Virtual Reality (VR) based interventions combined with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) represent a promising approach to address PSA by enabling controlled, gradual exposure to feared social situations through realistic simulations of audiences and settings. This randomized controlled trial will evaluate whether integrating VR sessions into standard psychological counseling provided by the University Psychological Counseling Service (UPCS) improves anxiety and PSA outcomes in university students compared with counseling alone.\n\nParticipants will be randomized to one of two groups: (1) a control group receiving standard psychological counseling intervention, or (2) an experimental group receiving psychological counseling supplemented with VR interventions delivered via immersive 360° video scenarios. The VR-based intervention includes a VR-Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) module offering graded exposure to anxiety-provoking public speaking contexts, and a VR-Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) module aimed at enhancing mindfulness and psychological flexibility through guided experiential exercises. Psychological outcomes and physiological responses recorded during sessions will be analyzed to compare the effectiveness of VR-integrated counseling versus standard counseling alone. This study addresses the limited evidence on CBT combined with 360° video-based VR exposure for PSA in university students and introduces a novel VR-based ERP and ACT protocol tailored to a university counseling setting.",[66,34,67,28],"Anxiety and Distress","Anxiety Disease",[69,70,71],"Public speaking anxiety","university counseling","Virtual Reality","NOT_YET_RECRUITING","2026-01-09",{"date":75,"type":44},"2026-01-20",{"date":77,"type":21},"2026-03-01",{"date":79,"type":21},"2026-12-31",{"name":81,"class":51},"University of Calabria",1,{"id":84,"slug":4,"hasResults":10,"nctId":85,"briefTitle":86,"officialTitle":87,"acronym":88,"eligibilityCriteria":89,"healthyVolunteers":10,"sex":16,"minAge":17,"maxAge":90,"enrollmentInfo":91,"targetDuration":4,"studyType":22,"phases":93,"briefSummary":94,"conditions":95,"keywords":97,"overallStatus":40,"whyStopped":4,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":102,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":103,"startDateStruct":104,"completionDateStruct":106,"leadSponsor":108,"locationsCount":82},"100617813","NCT07323498","Enhancing Generalization of Virtual Reality Exposure for Public Speaking Anxiety","Enhancing Generalization of Virtual Reality Exposure for Public Speaking Anxiety Via Imagery-Based Extinction Memory Updating: A Randomized Controlled Trial","VREX2","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* speech anxiety scale score of ≥ 18 on the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension, Public Speaking Subscale (PRCA-PS)\n* Self-report of 18 - 70 years of age\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n\\-","70 Years",{"count":92,"type":21},48,[24],"This randomized controlled trial examines whether imagery-based extinction memory updating following a standardized virtual reality (VR) exposure session improves the generalization of exposure effects to novel public speaking contexts. Individuals with elevated public speaking anxiety will complete a single-session VR speech exposure. Participants are randomized to (a) standard mental rehearsal of the exposure experience or (b) mental rehearsal plus guided imagery that updates the extinction memory with novel, non-exposed contexts. Generalization is assessed 7-14 days later using a multi-context behavioral approach test (BAT) in vivo and in VR.",[28,96],"Public Speaking Fear",[98,99,100,101],"virtual reality exposure","extinction generalization","fear extinction","exposure therapy","2026-01-07",{"date":73,"type":44},{"date":105,"type":44},"2025-11-26",{"date":107,"type":21},"2026-12",{"name":109,"class":51},"Philipps University Marburg",{"id":111,"slug":4,"hasResults":10,"nctId":112,"briefTitle":113,"officialTitle":114,"acronym":4,"eligibilityCriteria":115,"healthyVolunteers":10,"sex":16,"minAge":17,"maxAge":4,"enrollmentInfo":116,"targetDuration":4,"studyType":22,"phases":118,"briefSummary":119,"conditions":120,"keywords":121,"overallStatus":40,"whyStopped":4,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":127,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":128,"startDateStruct":130,"completionDateStruct":132,"leadSponsor":134,"locationsCount":82},"100596873","NCT07051135","HablaRÉ: Self-applied Online Training for Correcting Emotional Reasoning Biases in Public Speaking Anxiety.","HablaRÉ: Self-applied Online Training for Correcting Emotional Reasoning Biases in Public Speaking Anxiety. A Feasibility, Non-randomised Pilot Study.","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n1. Be of legal age.\n2. Accept the informed consent.\n3. Adequately understand\u002Fread Spanish.\n4. Have access to a mobile device or computer with an Internet connection.\n5. Not receiving any other psychological treatment for public speaking anxiety during the study period.\n6. Have a score of 43 or higher on the Emotional reasoning scale (ERPSAS) AND\u002FOR a score of 55 or higher on the Spanish version of the Public Speaking Anxiety Scale (PSAS-S) for fear of public speaking.\n7. If taking prescribed medication for anxiety\u002Fdepression, have had no changes in dosage for at least one month before the procedure.\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n1. Not accepting the informed consent.\n2. Being a minor.\n3. Having a severe mental disorder (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or other psychotic disorders) or substance abuse (alcohol or other substances) or having active suicidal plans (suicide item in the ODSIS depression questionnaire ≥ 2) that would prevent participation in the program.\n4. In the case of receiving medication, changes in medication during treatment will be evaluated but will not lead to exclusion.",{"count":117,"type":21},20,[24],"The project aims to assess the feasibility of self-administered training for individuals with public speaking anxiety, specifically targeting the reduction of emotional reasoning bias. It seeks to evaluate the interventions' usability, acceptability, satisfaction and adherence\u002Fcompliance rates. In addition, the study intends to determine the feasibility of conducting a potential randomised clinical trial to evaluate the true impact of the intervention on emotional reasoning biases and public speaking anxiety levels.",[28],[122,28,34,123,124,125,126],"Emotional Reasoning","Emotional disorders","Feasibility","Internet intervention","Psychological treatment","2025-06-26",{"date":129,"type":44},"2025-07-03",{"date":131,"type":44},"2025-05-01",{"date":133,"type":21},"2025-09",{"name":135,"class":51},"Universitat Jaume I",{"id":137,"slug":4,"hasResults":10,"nctId":138,"briefTitle":139,"officialTitle":140,"acronym":141,"eligibilityCriteria":142,"healthyVolunteers":10,"sex":16,"minAge":17,"maxAge":143,"enrollmentInfo":144,"targetDuration":4,"studyType":22,"phases":146,"briefSummary":147,"conditions":148,"keywords":151,"overallStatus":40,"whyStopped":4,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":155,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":156,"startDateStruct":158,"completionDateStruct":160,"leadSponsor":162,"locationsCount":82},"100567839","NCT06673407","Group Exposure Workshops for Socially Anxious Undergraduates","Pilot Trial on the Contribution of Peer Leaders and Self-Compassion to Group Exposure Workshops for Socially Anxious Undergraduates","OASIS","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Age = 18-30\n* Able to read and write fluently in English\n* Current undergraduate students at CU\n* Experiencing elevated social anxiety symptoms indicated by a SPIN score ≥ 19\n* Experiencing moderate to high communication anxiety indicated by a PRCA- 24 score ≥ 59\n* Open to receiving help for social anxiety or public speaking fears indicated by a help seeking score of ≥ 3 out of 5 (at both screening timepoints as explained below)\n* Able to voluntarily consent to participation\n* Able to participate fully in the study (including in the in-person group workshops and in survey completion) as assessed by screening questions and the study P\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Are currently experiencing moderately severe or severe depression represented by the validated cutoff score for major depression on the PHQ-8 of greater than 14 (Kroenke et al., 2001)\n* Score in the moderate-high range for suicide risk as indicated by the CSSRS (Salvi, 2019), report a suicide attempt in the past 12 months, or report current, ongoing suicidal ideation along with a past (lifetime) suicide attempt\n* Are current students of the PI or clients or current students of the doctoral student co-facilitators","30 Years",{"count":145,"type":21},200,[24],"The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of four versions of a workshop for social anxiety and public speaking stress. All participants are current University of Colorado Boulder undergraduate students. Participation in this research study lasts for approximately 8 weeks, and includes a pre-workshop questionnaire, 3 weekly workshop sessions (ranging from 2 to 3 hours each, including a 5-minute post-session questionnaire), a post-workshop questionnaire, and a 1-month follow-up questionnaire.",[149,96,28,150],"Social Anxiety Disorder","Social Fear",[35,28,33,152,153,154],"Peer-led","Self-compassion","Common Humanity","2025-05-15",{"date":157,"type":44},"2025-05-20",{"date":159,"type":44},"2024-06-12",{"date":161,"type":21},"2025-10-01",{"name":163,"class":51},"University of Colorado, Boulder",{"id":165,"slug":4,"hasResults":10,"nctId":166,"briefTitle":167,"officialTitle":168,"acronym":4,"eligibilityCriteria":169,"healthyVolunteers":10,"sex":16,"minAge":17,"maxAge":4,"enrollmentInfo":170,"targetDuration":4,"studyType":22,"phases":172,"briefSummary":173,"conditions":174,"keywords":175,"overallStatus":72,"whyStopped":4,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":183,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":184,"startDateStruct":186,"completionDateStruct":188,"leadSponsor":190,"locationsCount":4},"100558527","NCT06552273","Online Psychotherapy for Emotional Reasoning Bias in Public Speaking Anxiety","Implementation of a Self-applied Online Psychological Intervention for Emotional Reasoning Bias in People With Public Speaking Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n1. Be of legal age.\n2. Accept the informed consent.\n3. Adequately understand\u002Fread Spanish.\n4. Have access to a mobile device or computer with an Internet connection.\n5. Not receiving any other psychological treatment for public speaking anxiety during the study period.\n6. Have a score of 43 or higher on the Emotional reasoning scale (ERPSAS) AND a score of 55 or higher on the Spanish version of the Public Speaking Anxiety Scale (PSAS-S) for fear of public speaking.\n7. If taking prescribed medication for anxiety\u002Fdepression, have had no changes in dosage for at least one month before the procedure.\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n1. Not accepting the informed consent.\n2. Being a minor.\n3. Having a severe mental disorder (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or other psychotic disorders) or substance abuse (alcohol or other substances) or having active suicidal plans (suicide item in the ODSIS depression questionnaire ≥ 2) that would prevent participation in the program.\n4. In the case of receiving medication, changes in medication during treatment will be evaluated but will not lead to exclusion.",{"count":171,"type":21},158,[24],"The study aims to develop and implement a self-applied online psychological intervention for the correction of Emotional Reasoning bias for people with public speaking anxiety. By comparing the effects of this training for ER biases vs. a non-specific mindfulness intervention, the newly developed intervention is expected to promote a greater reduction in emotional reasoning bias and the severity of symptomatology associated with public speaking anxiety.",[28],[176,177,69,125,178,179,180,181,182],"Bias correction training","Emotional reasoning","Self-applied intervention","Randomized controlled trial","Scared of speaking in public","Transdiagnostic process","Social anxiety","2024-09-09",{"date":185,"type":44},"2024-09-19",{"date":187,"type":21},"2024-11-01",{"date":189,"type":21},"2025-11-01",{"name":135,"class":51},""]