Psychometric Validation of the Competitive Attention Test (CAT)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Treatments: Other: experience 3 :Competitive attention test in patients with ADHD with psychostimulant treatment; Other: experience 2 : Competitive attention test in patients with ADHD with no treatment; Other: experience 1 : Competitive attention test in healthy participants

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03942835

2018-A02597-48 (Other Identifier)

69HCL18_0376

Details and patient eligibility

About

This project aims at validating a new neuropsychological test to measure voluntary and involuntary attention for clinical use to diagnose attentional deficits.

This project proposes:

• a test-retest procedure in healthy subjects aged from 6 to 90 year-old;
• testing in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) patients before psychostimulant treatment;
• testing in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) patients before psychostimulant treatment.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 90 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

healthy major participants:

• Age from 18 to 90 year-old
• Informed consent to participate in the study
• No neurological or psychiatric disorder
• No history of neuro-psychiatric disorder or neurodevelopmental type dysphasia, dyslexia, dyspraxia, attention deficit disorder

healthy minor participants:

• Age from 6 to 17 year-old
• Informed consent of parents or guardians for the child's participation in the study
• No neurological or psychiatric disorder
• No history of neuro-psychiatric disorder or neurodevelopmental type dysphasia, dyslexia, dyspraxia, Attention deficit disorder

ADHD minor patients:

• Age from 6 to 17 year-old
• Informed consent of parents or guardians for the child's participation in the study
• ADHD Diagnosis with or without hyperactivity
• No psychiatric history other than ADHD.
• For Experience 3: treatment in progress.

Exclusion criteria

healthy major participants

• Age below 18 or above 90 year-old
• unaffiliated or non-beneficiaries of the social security scheme

healthy minor participants:

• Age below 6 or above 18 year-old
• unaffiliated or non-beneficiaries of the social security scheme

ADHD minor patients:

• Age below 6 or above 18 year-old
• unaffiliated or non-beneficiaries of the social security scheme

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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26 participants in 3 patient groups

Healthy participants aged from 6 to 90 year-old

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: experience 1 : Competitive attention test in healthy participants

patients with ADHD with no treatment

Experimental group

Description:

patients with ADHD aged from 6 to 90 year-old with no treatment

Treatment:

Other: experience 2 : Competitive attention test in patients with ADHD with no treatment

patients with ADHD with treatment

Experimental group

Description:

patients with ADHD aged from 6 to 90 year-old with psychostimulant treatment (Methylphenidate)

Treatment:

Other: experience 2 : Competitive attention test in patients with ADHD with no treatment

Other: experience 3 :Competitive attention test in patients with ADHD with psychostimulant treatment