New Technologies to Help Manage ADHD

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Treatments: Other: treatment as usual standard portal; Other: enhanced myADHDportal.com

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02390791

R34MH101155 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate the general effectiveness of intervention compared to control on medication continuity as measured by prescriptions written and other more proximal outcomes during the first six months of treatment.

Full description

This cluster randomized controlled trial will evaluate the general effectiveness of the intervention (e.g. enhanced myADHDportal.com), compared to control (e.g. treatment as usual standard portal), on medication continuity as measured by prescriptions written and other more proximal outcomes during the first six months of treatment.

Enrollment: 85 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 10 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents of children are eligible to participate if

  1. their child receives ADHD care at one of the pediatric primary care practices that is partnering to conduct this trial
  2. child being registered on myADHDportal.com to initiate child assessment of ADHD
  3. child age 6-10 years
  4. child must not have been previously treated with ADHD medication
  5. child prescribed ADHD medication within 12 months of enrolling in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to read and speak English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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85 participants in 2 patient groups

enhanced myADHDportal.com

Experimental group

Description:

Version of the myADHDportal.com web software enhanced with family-management support to enable parents to be active partners in optimizing and maintaining medication continuity for their child

Treatment:

Other: enhanced myADHDportal.com

treatment as usual standard portal

Active Comparator group

Description:

Standard version of myADHDportal.com web software

Treatment:

Other: treatment as usual standard portal