Working Memory Training in Young ADHD Children

Phase 4

Completed

• Conditions: Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity
• Interventions: Behavioral: Cogmed Working memory training; Behavioral: Control version of Cogmed working memory training

• Registration Number: NCT00819611
• Lead Sponsor: Radboud University Medical Center

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether working memory training improves behavioral symptoms, neurocognitive performance, and neural functioning in young children with ADHD.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2009-01-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-01-08
• Study First Posted: 2009-01-09
• Study Start: 2009-06
• Primary Completion: 2013-05
• Study Completion: 2013-12
• Status Verified: 2014-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-01-09
• Last Update Posted: 2014-01-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 51

Inclusion Criteria

• Age between 4 years/6 months and 7 years/4 months
• Diagnosis ADHD, classified by the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 2000)
• A full scale IQ >= 80
• Psychopharmaca- naïve or -free
• Access to a PC with Windows Vista or Windows XP with internet connection and speakers at home

Exclusion Criteria

• Currently intensive (i.e. weekly) individual or group psychotherapy
• Regular use of medication
• Diagnosis of one or more of the following comorbid psychiatric disorders: Major depression, Bipolar disorder, Psychotic disorder, Chronically motor tic disorder or Gilles de la Tourette, Conduct disorder, any other autism spectrum disorder except for Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), Eating disorders, Anxiety disorders
• Neurological disorders (e.g. epilepsy) currently or in the past
• Cardiovascular disease currently or in the past
• Serious motor or perceptual handicap
• Participation in another clinical trial simultaneously
• Educational level and/ or socio-economic situation that makes it unlikely for the family to fulfil this study

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Working memory training	Cogmed Working memory training	-
Control version of working memory training	Control version of Cogmed working memory training	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
ADHD criteria according to the DSM-IV-TR rated by the investigator	7 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Neurocognitive performance and electrocortical activity	7 weeks

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Karakter University Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Nijmegen; 🇳🇱 Nijmegen, Netherlands