Effect of Feedback and Practice on Probabilistic Decision Making in Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder

Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: ADHD

Treatments: Behavioral: probabilistic choice

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01574976

37/12

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine how feedback and practice affect decision making in adolescents with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder.

Participants will have to choose between low and certain outcome and a higher but uncertain outcome, with or without serial feedback after each trial. Participants will perform the task twice to examine practice effects.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ADHD

Exclusion criteria

• Current major depression,
• Psychosis,
• Autism,
• Tourette syndrome

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 4 patient groups

control, no feeback

Active Comparator group

Description:

subjects without ADHD, probabilistic choices without feedback

Treatment:

Behavioral: probabilistic choice

control, feedback

Active Comparator group

Description:

subjects without ADHD, probabilistic choices with feedback

Treatment:

Behavioral: probabilistic choice

ADHD, no feedback

Experimental group

Description:

subjects with ADHD, probabilistic choices without feedback

Treatment:

Behavioral: probabilistic choice

adhd, feedback

Experimental group

Description:

subjects with ADHD, probabilistic choices with feedback

Treatment:

Behavioral: probabilistic choice