NCT03160378

Organizational Skills Training for Children With ADHD

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 142 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Region Syddanmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 13 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this trial is to investigate the effect of organizational skills training, a parent and child training approach on organizational skills, inattentive symptoms and functional outcome in children age 6-13 years. Half of the participants will receive treatment as usual (TAU) and organizational skills training and the other half will receive TAU.

Detailed description

Organizational skills training (OST) is a behavioral intervention that has been increasingly used to address difficulties with time management and organization of materials in children with ADHD, that tend to persist despite medication and behavioral treatments. This randomized clinical superiority trial is going to investigate the effect of Organizational Skills Training, a group treatment approach for parents and children. The program is also involving a computerized program, vTime, that will help the children manage time more effectively. A total of 98 children with ADHD aged 6-13 years is expected to be randomized to either intervention or control group in a single blind design. Both groups will receive treatment-as-usual. The intervention group is going to participate in a group training for parents and children for 10 weekly sessions.

Conditions

• ADHD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Organizational skills training	10 sessions of parent and child training in a group format.
OTHER	Treatment as usual	Treatment as usual in the outpatient clinic

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-22
• Primary completion: 2022-09-01
• Completion: 2022-12-01
• First posted: 2017-05-19
• Last updated: 2022-04-08

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Denmark