Markers of Executive Attention Development in Preschoolers - Behavioral Measures in Various Populations (MEDiATE-PRV)

Caen University Hospital

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Attention Deficit

Treatments

Behavioral: Laby 5-12

Behavioral: Attention Network task (computerized)

Behavioral: Head-toes-knees-schoulders

Behavioral: Stroop animals

Behavioral: M-ABC 2

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04831762

2020-A03209-30

Details and patient eligibility

About

Executive attention is essential for emotional and behavioral self-regulation. There is inter-individual variability in the level of efficiency of executive attention from kindergarten entry, and this variability predicts children's academic performance at entry to elementary school and beyond. It is therefore essential to better understand the early stages of executive attention development and self-regulation from an early age in order to develop tools for early detection of executive attention disorders, so that school accommodations can be proposed as early as possible.

In previous work, we have identified early tactile information processing skills that underpin the development of executive attention. We would like to extend this work to a diverse population of preschool children, in order to consider new tools for the early detection of attention disorders. The MEDiATE-PRV project aims to compare the performance obtained in a validated attentional task in preschool children with assessments of tactile information processing, in relation to the psychomotor and executive development of the child. We will include 200 children aged 4 years to 5 years 11 months with different risk factors for ADHD.

Enrollment

200 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

48 to 71 months old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria