NCT04454008

RCT of EF Family Training for P ADHD

Executive Functioning Family Training for Preschool Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - a Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 48 Months – 71 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To explore the effect of executive function family training for preschool children with ADHD, providing early social psychological intervention for aiming the core impairments of ADHD.

Detailed description

100 preschool children with ADHD will be randomly divided into the intervention group and the waiting group. The waiting group received regular clinical intervention, while the intervention group received 12-week training. The intervention program includes executive function training for ADHD children and parenting guidance for parents by two therapists respectively, which were carried out in two meeting rooms in Xinhua Hospital. Therapists are psychiatrists with a background in child psychiatry and psychotherapists with training in ADHD area. After 12 weeks, the improvement of ADHD core symptoms and executive function was compared.

Conditions

• ADHD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	executive function family training	Intervention programs include executive function training for children with ADHD and parenting guidance for parents
BEHAVIORAL	treat as usual	Outpatient routine health education, behavioral guidance and family support

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-06
• Primary completion: 2023-10-30
• Completion: 2025-10-30
• First posted: 2020-07-01
• Last updated: 2021-03-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China