Sustained Endogenous Attention Deficits in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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
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
Treatments tested in this trial
- Sustained-Paced Finger Tapping" (Petilli et al., 2018)
Treatment groups
50 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment groupSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov