NCT02780102

Cognitive-Motor Rehabilitation, Stimulant Drugs, and Active Control in the Treatment of ADHD

Comparison of the Effects of Cognitive-Motor Rehabilitation, Stimulant Drugs, and Active Control on Executive Functions and Clinical Symptoms of Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: Allameh Tabatabai University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 9 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators administered a randomized controlled trial (RCT) through random assignment of children with ADHD into three different groups to compare the effects of cognitive-motor rehabilitation, immediate release methylphenidate, and an active control on the executive functioning, learning, and behavioral symptoms of children with ADHD.

Conditions

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Cognitive-Motor Rehabilitation	Cognitive-Motor Rehabilitation (CMR) group received 20 sixty-minute sessions of cognitive-motor exercises
DRUG	Ritalin	2 or 3 doses of 10 mg tablets of immediate-release Methylphenidate (Ritalin) per day for 8 week.
OTHER	Active Control	Active Control group simultaneously received 20 sixty-minute sessions of low dose cognitive-motor exercises

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-09-01
• Primary completion: 2016-03-01
• Completion: 2017-08-01
• First posted: 2016-05-23
• Last updated: 2021-02-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Iran