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Executive Functions and Self-Regulation Among Children With and Without ADHD in Germany and Taiwan

NCT01677832 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 180

Last updated 2021-09-02

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Summary

Children and adolescents with ADHD are impulsive and have difficulties in regulating their behaviors. It has been suggested that a core deficit in inhibitory control may account for dysfunctional behaviors associated with this disorder. Previous research has shown that medication and the self-regulation strategy of making implementation intentions (i.e., if-then plans) are effective in enhancing children's inhibitory control, which is reflected in the behavioral as well as electrophysiological (e.g., Electroencephalogram; EEG) data on a Go/NoGo task in children with ADHD. As suggested by earlier research, however, forming implementation intentions may have different effects on people who are embedded in different cultures.

The aim of the present study is to compare the effects of medication and the self-regulation of forming implementation intentions by assessing the behavioral performance and corresponding brain activity during a Go/NoGo task in children and adolescents with and without ADHD under two different cultural contexts. Further, this study also aims at investigating the potential moderating effects of culture on making if-then plans. More important, as we know, this will be the first study to compare the effectiveness of forming implementation intentions on children and adolescents with ADHD in a cross-cultural way, which is meaningful for researchers to explore the degree of its application and expected to provide clinical psychologists an alternative perspective for ADHD treatment in the near future.

Conditions

  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Taiwan University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Susan Shur-Fen Gau, MD, PhD · National Taiwan University Hospital & College of Medicine

Eligibility

Min Age
10 Years
Max Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-01
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Taiwan

Study Locations

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