In an exploratory analysis in healthy male students, higher trait anxiety went with poorer perceived speech performance in the placebo group, but this link was not found with oxytocin.
In plain wordsIn healthy young men, an exploratory analysis found that anxious men rated their speech worse on placebo, but not on oxytocin.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- DecreaseAssociation of trait anxiety with perceived speech performance
- Study
n = 48
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Analysis
- Exploratory
- Outcome group
- Anxiety and mood · Mental health and mood
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · nasal sprayAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
Exploratory analyses revealed that whilst higher trait anxiety was associated with increasingly poorer perceptions of speech performance in the placebo group, this relationship was not found in participants administered oxytocin.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 48 participants self-administered either an oxytocin or placebo nasal spray and, following a wait period, completed an impromptu speech task.