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Table 1 Measurement instruments: purpose, measures and time points

From: Combining cognitive bias modification training with motivational support in alcohol dependent outpatients: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Purpose

Measures

Baseline

Training

Post-intervention

Follow-up

Cognitive bias assessment

VPT AAT

✓

✓

✓

✓

Generalisation of training effects

BIAT

✓

 

✓

 

Executive function

Stroop task

✓

 

✓

 

Baseline measures

Demographics Case history details RSES

✓

   

Primary outcome measure

Clinical status (lapse/relapse)

✓

 

✓

✓

Secondary outcome measures

AUDITa CORE Alcohol/Drug usea OCDS STAI-Y BDI-II

✓

 

✓

✓

Motivation to treatment

MAC2-A

✓

 

✓

 

Motivation to training

 

✓

  
  1. aAt baseline, post-intervention and follow-up measurement sessions, the questionnaire refers to the last 12, 1, and 3 months, respectively.
  2. VPT: Visual Probe Task; AAT: Approach-Avoidance Task, BIAT: Brief Implicit Association Task, RSES: Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, AUDIT: Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test, OCDS: Obsessive-Compulsive Drinking Scale, STAI-Y: State-Trait Anxiety Inventory – Form Y, BDI-II: Beck Depression Inventory-II, MAC2-A: Motivation to Change-Alcohol version.