Effects of Animation Therapy on Children With ADHD

Kutahya Health Sciences University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity

Treatments: Other: Animation Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05274282

GO 15/728-22

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to determine the effects of animation therapy on the main symptoms of Attention Deficit - Hyperactivity Disorder; hyperactivity, inattention and impulsivity.

Full description

Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most frequent childhood disorder, that is characterized with three main symptoms: inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. Animation Therapy is the use of a stop-motion movie production process for therapeutic purposes. This new approach may have promising effect on attention because of its flow effect. Also, there is only one study on the effectiveness of Animation Therapy in literature. This study is planned to investigate the effects of Animation Therapy on the main symptoms of the disorder.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being at the age between 6-12 years.
• Being diagnosed with ADHD by a psychiatrist.
• Taking prescribed medication for treatment of ADHD.
• Having no physical, visual or mental problems.

Exclusion criteria

• Absence in pre- and post-intervention evaluations
• Not completing 10-weeks of re-animation approach intervention process.
• Discontinuation of medical treatment for ADHD.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

Animation Therapy Group

Experimental group

Description:

10 sessions of Animation Therapy (1 session/week)

Treatment:

Other: Animation Therapy

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention