A Randomized Controlled Study of Family Based EF Training for Schoolage Children With ADHD

Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine100 enrolled

Overview

The goal of this study is to provide a new treatment approach for schoolage children with ADHD, which could facilitate the EF developing well to achieve better outcome.

ADHD in preschoolers has become established as a valid psychiatric disorder with characterized core deficits of executive function (EF). The EF impairments occurred in preschool period could persist to childhood, adolescent and adulthood, causing extensive and deep damage of individual's academic and career achievement, social function, and peer relationship. Although medication showed significant effectiveness in controlling the core symptoms of ADHD, it failed to help patients master compensatory strategies to cope with functional impairments in learning and life events. The family intervention program for school-age ADHD children is still rare, and it is a blank field in China. At present, most of these related studies have not integrated task training in realistic scenarios with parent training, and lack of randomized and controlled Settings, which makes the effect of intervention less convincing. Therefore, the investigators conduct this randomized and controlled study to find out the therapeutic efficacy of Family-based Executive Function Training for Schoolage Children with ADHD, and follow the subjects to observe whether the therapeutic efficacy would persist. In the mean time, the investigators also observe the factors which can influence the therapeutic efficacy. The goal of this study is to provide a new treatment approach for schoolage children with ADHD, which could facilitate the EF developing well to achieve better outcome.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

100

Conditions

ADHD Child, Only

Interventions

Family based Executive Function TrainingBEHAVIORAL

Training the executive funtions of shcoolage ADHD children through tasks and games repeatly but with fun. Giving the parental training and support for the parenting role parents strategies to help the shcoolage ADHD childred coping the symptoms and develop EF in the reallife and improve parent-child relationship.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 7 YearsMax age: 11 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: 1. meet both the criteria of ADHD based on the interview by the CDIS and clinical diagnosis with DSM-5; 2. full-scale IQ estimated bythe Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised Form (WISC-R) above 80; 3. their parents volunteered to participate in this study. Exclusion Criteria: 1. child with severe mental disorder or physical disease that might interfere the assessment and intervention, such as Autistic Spectrum Disorder(ASD), Schizophrenia, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, etc.; 2. parents with severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia, mood disorder (period of onset), etc..

Locations (1)

Xinhua Hospital

Shanghai, China

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

The executive function of of schoolage child of ADHD

The core symptoms of schoolage children of ADHD assessed by neuropsychological evaluation tool NEPSY

Time frame: through the intervention completion, an average of 12 weeks

Secondary Outcomes

The executive function in real life of schoolage child of ADHD

The executive function in real life of schoolage children of ADHD assessed by BRIEF

Time frame: through the intervention completion, an average of 12 weeks

The ADHD symptoms of child

The ADHD symptoms of child assessed by SNAP

Time frame: through the intervention completion, an average of 12 weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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