Communication in Adolescents With ADHD
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 9
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Use of perspective in conversation
研究概览
简要总结
The interpersonal problems of adolescents with ADHD may be the most debilitating aspect of their psychopathologic behaviour. This being said, the investigators still do not have a clear understanding of why it is the case that individuals with ADHD have such impaired social and communicative competence. In particular, research has not identified whether the communicative difficulties stems from deficits in taking the perspective of a communicative partner, or in being able to make use of this information in a systematic way. This study will compare adolescents with ADHD to adolescents not diagnosed with ADHD and their performance on a number of social inference and communication tests. This study hypothesizes that persons with ADHD will not perform as effectively as control participants on the social inference and communication tests, and will evidence lower WM score. As well, this study hypothesizes that a working memory/cognitive load task will impede performance on certain social inference and communication tests to a greater extent in the ADHD population than in the control group.
详细描述
The first objective of this project is to examine whether individuals with ADHD symptoms are less able than their non-ADHD counterparts to use the perspective of their conversational partner, a deficiency which in turn contributes to increased difficulty in more complex communicative contexts.
The second objective is to assess the degree to which communicative difficulties stem from the core cognitive deficits faced by individuals with ADHD. Only recently has the developmental literature uncovered the relationship between cognitive skills and communicative perspective-taking. That is, children who have more proficient inhibition are better able to suppress their own perspective in order to take into account the perspective of a conversational partner (Nilsen & Graham, 2009). Furthermore, working memory skills have been found to relate to children's ability to understand the intentions of speakers who use figurative language (e.g., Filippova & Astington, 2008).Thus, it may be that a weakness in inhibition and working memory (over and above possible weakness in their mentalizing skills) prevents children with ADHD from using the perspective of their conversational partner during communicative interactions.
General research questions: Are adolescents with ADHD less able to appreciate the perspective of conversational partners? Does this relate to their core executive deficits?
Specific Research Questions Summary:
- Do adolescents with ADHD show less social inference ability? Is this ability exacerbated by increased cognitive demands (e.g., working memory)?
- Do adolescents with ADHD show less communicative perspective-taking? Is this related to their inhibitory control skills?
- Do adolescents with ADHD overestimate the clarity of their intended messages in texts? Is this 'overestimation' more closely related to difficulties with appreciating 'common ground' when constructing text messages?
- Do adolescents with ADHD conflate their own knowledge with that of a listener in third-person perspective tasks? Is this related to IC / WM?
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Control
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 14 Years 至 17 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- 未提供
排除标准
- •Other mental health diagnoses, such as ASD.
结局指标
主要结局
Use of perspective in conversation
时间窗: Up to 3 hours during assessment
次要结局
- The degree to which communicative difficulties stem from the core cognitive deficits(Up to 3 hours during assessment)
研究者
Rosemary Tannock
Senior Scientist
The Hospital for Sick Children