Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in College Students - Study 1

Northwell Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: ADHD

Treatments: Behavioral: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Targeting Executive Dysfunction in College Students with ADHD

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05588505

20-0013

Details and patient eligibility

About

College students with ADHD have significant difficulty effectively managing their time, organizing, planning, and completing their academic work. As a result, they typically have lower grade-point averages, more course failures and withdrawals, are more likely to be placed on academic probation and are less likely to graduate from college than students without ADHD. The purpose of this project is to refine and test a psychological intervention on campus to help students with ADHD develop these self-management skills so that they can be more successful in college and avoid these negative outcomes.

Full description

Participants will be assessed pre- and post-intervention during interviews with the clinician-investigators and on several self-report questionnaires designed to assess their self-management of time, organization, and planning. Feedback of the results will be discussed with them, including any recommendations for further treatment.

Enrollment: 41 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Student at The City College of New York
• Diagnosis of ADHD, Inattentive or Combined Subtype
• In good physical health

Exclusion criteria

• Actively abusing drugs or alcohol within the past 6 months
• Actively suicidal
• Diagnosis of borderline personality disorder
• Diagnosis of bipolar disorder
• Diagnosis of a psychotic disorder
• Neurological disorder (such as traumatic brain injury, brain tumor, Parkinson's)
• History of childhood abuse or trauma or psychiatric condition that prevents clear
• confirmation of the presence of ADHD in childhood
• Any other acute psychiatric condition (e.g. acute panic disorder, severe depression) with treatment needs that take precedence over ADHD.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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41 participants in 1 patient group

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy delivered in a group format

Experimental group

Description:

Participating students will be assessed before and after the 12-week group Cognitive-Behavioral intervention to ascertain their response to the treatment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Targeting Executive Dysfunction in College Students with ADHD