Sustained Endogenous Attention Deficits in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

ConditionADHD - Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age6-13

SponsorIRCCS Eugenio Medea

About this trial

Subjects with ADHD may exhibit deficits in sustained internal attention. The "Sustained-Paced Finger Tapping" test was recently developed and experimentally used in international literature to assess sustained internal attention in typically developing children. This clinical study has several objectives: 1) to assess the presence of "internal" sustained attention deficits in children with ADHD through the "Sustained-Paced Finger Tapping"; 2) to evaluate the discriminant and ecological validity of the "Sustained-Paced Finger Tapping."

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

ADHD Group (1) Subjects with a diagnosis of ADHD of any severity level and subtype

ADHD Group (2) "Medication-naive" ADHD subjects, meaning subjects who have not been prescribed and/or have not yet started any pharmacological treatment for ADHD

ADHD Group (3) IQ ≥ 70

Non-ADHD Group, Normal IQ

Disqualifiers

for both groups, symptomatology suggestive of autism spectrum disorders, psychotic disorders, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders

for both groups, use of psychotropic drugs

for both groups, subjects with cerebral palsy and/or neuromotor and neuromuscular disorders

for both groups, CNS diseases, e.g., epilepsy and/or neurodegenerative diseases, or central nervous system injuries resulting from, for example, head trauma or stroke

Trial design

Design model

Single group

Treatments tested in this trial

Sustained-Paced Finger Tapping" (Petilli et al., 2018)
Diagnostic test
Sustained-Paced Finger Tapping" (Petilli et al., 2018) a computerized test that lasts approximately 10 minutes. It involves maintaining and reproducing the rhythm of a sound (auditory version).

Treatment groups

50 Participants

are divided into 1 treatment group

Group A: ADHD group and Control GroupOther 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

Performances on Sustained-Paced Finger Tapping test

Both groups of subjects (i.e. ADHD group and Control Group) will be administered the "Sustained-Paced Finger Tapping" (Petilli et al., 2018). It is a computerized test that lasts approximately 10 minutes. It consists of maintaining and reproducing for a certain period of time (10 minutes) the rhythm of a sound presentation (auditory version).

Time frame

baseline

Sponsors and contacts

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IRCCS Eugenio Medea

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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