Cognitive Training in Children With Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Region Syddanmark

Status: Completed

Conditions: ADHD

Treatments: Other: Computer program C8; Other: Treatment as usual

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01752530

S-20120096

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of computer program C8 on specific cognitive functions, symptoms and functional outcome compared to treatment as usual in children with ADHD. Furthermore, if the effect is sustained 12 and 24 weeks after training. In addition, it will be investigated, whether younger children benefit more from training than older children.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 13 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. ADHD- diagnosis
2. age 6-13 years
3. Patient has access to computer og internet from home
4. Informed consent

Exclusion criteria

1. Comorbidity: conduct disorder, autism spectrum disorders, depression, or schizophrenia
2. Head trauma or neurological disease
3. Intelligence quotient (IQ) < 80
4. Motoric or perceptual handicap
5. Medical disease requiring treatment
6. No informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Computer program C8 + treatment as usual

Experimental group

Description:

Computer program C 8 + treatment as usual. Subjects in the intervention group will be playing a special computer program C8 for 40 min a day, 6 times a week for 8 weeks in addition to treatment as usual.

Treatment:

Other: Treatment as usual

Other: Computer program C8

Treatment as usual

Other group

Description:

Treatment as usual at the clinic

Treatment:

Other: Treatment as usual