NCT03042338

Central Executive Training for ADHD

Evaluating the Feasibility of Central Executive Training for Children With ADHD

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 54 (actual)
• Sponsor: Florida State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 13 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Feasibility study of Central Executive Training (CET) for ADHD. The goal of the current project is to develop and assess the feasibility, acceptability, engagement, and usability of a novel, central executive (CE) working memory training intervention.

Detailed description

The goal of the core study is to develop a central executive training (CET) intervention for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and examine its feasibility, acceptability, engagement, and usability. This will involve early developmental work on software and treatment manuals followed by evaluation of the feasibility of enrolling, retaining, and treating ADHD children with CET. An evidence-informed intervention targeting central executive functioning in children with ADHD has the potential to result in clinically significant improvements in ADHD symptoms relative to extant behavioral treatments and capacity-based (short-term memory) training interventions. The long-term goal is to develop an efficacious and acceptable CET intervention with the potential for generalized improvements in, or normalization of, ADHD-related impairments in peer, family, and academic functioning.

Conditions

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	CET: Central Executive Training	CET: Central Executive Training
BEHAVIORAL	CET: Comparison Executive Training	CET: Comparison Executive Training

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-31
• Primary completion: 2018-07-31
• Completion: 2018-07-31
• First posted: 2017-02-03
• Last updated: 2021-02-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States