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Executive Function/Metacognitive Training for At-Risk Preschoolers

NCT01675869 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 68

Last updated 2017-02-03

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to see if an intervention training executive functions like attention, working memory, and self-regulation for preschoolers at risk for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is feasible, acceptable to families, and improves attention, behavior, and functioning.

Conditions

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Executive Training of Attention and Metacognition (ETAM)

ETAM is an 8-week intervention involving weekly concurrent child (n=\~6 per group) and parent intervention groups. The ETAM groups will be 1 hour in length (except for the first session which will be 2 hours).

BEHAVIORAL

Attention Control

Attention Control is an 8-week intervention involving weekly concurrent child (n=\~6 per group) and parent groups that control for the effects of attention. The groups will be 1 hour in length (except for the first session which will be 2 hours).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Leanne Tamm, Ph.D. · Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
5 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-07-31
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2016-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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