Medical Sciences Division, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Anna Watts Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK.
J Behav Med. 2018 Aug;41(4):550-567. doi: 10.1007/s10865-018-9919-6. Epub 2018 Apr 6.
Attentional biases have been observed in populations with psychological disorders, but have been under-investigated in populations with physical illnesses. This study investigated potential attentional biases in asthma as a function of mood. Asthma (N = 45), and healthy (N = 39) participants were randomly allocated to a depressed or a neutral mood state induction. They completed a visual probe task that measured participants' reaction times to health-threat and neutral pictures and words. Compared to the healthy controls, the asthma group showed attentional bias towards health-threat pictures in depressed mood, and avoidance of health-threat pictures in neutral mood. Attentional biases were found in a group with a physical illness as a function of induced mood. It is suggested that attentional processes in people with physical illness may be important in relation to symptom perception and illness management.
注意力偏差在患有心理障碍的人群中已经被观察到，但在患有身体疾病的人群中研究较少。本研究调查了哮喘患者在情绪影响下的潜在注意力偏差。哮喘患者（N=45）和健康对照组（N=39）被随机分配到抑郁或中性情绪状态诱导中。他们完成了一项视觉探测任务，该任务测量了参与者对健康威胁图片和中性图片及文字的反应时间。与健康对照组相比，哮喘组在抑郁情绪中对健康威胁图片表现出注意力偏向，而在中性情绪中则避免了健康威胁图片。在一个患有身体疾病的群体中，发现了注意力偏差，这与诱导的情绪有关。这表明，在身体疾病患者中，注意力过程可能与症状感知和疾病管理有关。
