NCT03515135

A Randomized Controlled Study of MEFP for Preschool Children With ADHD

Metacognitive Executive Function Training for Preschool Children With ADHD - A Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 96 (actual)
• Sponsor: Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 4 Years – 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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

Detailed description

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. Psychostimulants remain a controversial opinion for preschoolers and appear less efficacious and more common side effects. It is very important to explore the effective nonpharmacological intervention targeting the EF deficits and appropriately tailored to young children. Therefore, the investigators conduct this randomized and controlled study to find out the therapeutic efficacy of metacognitive Executive Function Training for Preschool Children with ADHD (MEFP), 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, early treatment approach for preschoolers with ADHD, which could facilitate the EF developing well to achieve better outcome.

Conditions

• ADHD
• Child, Only

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Metacognitive Executive Function Training	Training the executive funtions of preshcool ADHD children through tasks and games repeatly but with fun. Giving the parents strategies to help the prechool ADHD childred coping the symptoms and develop EF in the reallife.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-06-01
• Primary completion: 2018-12-30
• Completion: 2018-12-30
• First posted: 2018-05-03
• Last updated: 2020-03-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China