Effects Of The Mindfulness Meditation Practices On Cognition

Federal University of São Paulo

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity

Treatments: Behavioral: Active comparator (meditation) with healthy subjects; Behavioral: Meditation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01738334

EMC 001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have impairments in attentional subsystems of alerting and conflict monitoring. Mindfulness meditation may lead to an improvement of these deficits, and reduces symptoms of anxiety and depression. However, the studies that demonstrated these improvements did not use a control group, nor controlled the use of medication. In the present study the investigators will examine the effects of the mindfulness practices (same protocol of 8 weekly sessions used in the study that showed positive effects in this disorder) in the performance of adult patients and healthy people (with ADHD). Cognitive performance, mood, and the quality of life will be assessed by validated questionnaires before and after treatment/standby.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Portuguese as their first language;
• minimum of eight years of formal education;
• normal vision or corrected to normal and normal hearing;
• no prior experience with meditation;
• patients should be taking stable doses of methylphenidate (for at least a month) for their disorder as prescribed by their doctors.

Exclusion criteria

• patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders such as psychosis, obsessive-compulsive disorder or Tourette's syndrome.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 3 patient groups

Healthy subjects

Active Comparator group

Description:

The "active" control group of healthy individuals was subjected to the practice of meditation for eight weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Active comparator (meditation) with healthy subjects

Standby

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group of participants (patients and healthy subjects) who was not practice anything for eight weeks.

Meditation

Experimental group

Description:

A Group of Patients with ADHD was participate of the meditation practices for eight weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Meditation