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The Efficacy of Goal Focused, Non-Pharmacological Treatment for Persons With ADHD/ADD.

NCT04638283 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2022-02-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study aims to improve the understanding of non-pharmacological treatments of ADHD with a particular emphasis on coping with executive problems. Executive functions can be defined as those abilities necessary to formulate goals, carry them out effectively and enabling a person to engage successfully in independent, purposive, self-serving behavior.

The intervention consists of:

1. Eight psycho-educative group sessions focusing on Goal Management Training (GMT), a method aiming to enhance goal directed behavior, developed by Levine and colleagues in 2011.
2. Four individual sessions where the participants are guided through the process of formulation individual goals for improving functioning in everyday life. The method used for goal setting is Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS), developed by Kiresuk and Sherman in 1968.
3. Bi-weekly telephone follow up the first three months preceding the group sessions, focusing on the attainment of GAS-goals.

Adult participants with ADHD/ADD are recruited from the outpatient psychiatric health care clinic, DPS Nedre Romerike at Akershus University Hospital and are randomized into either 1) an intervention-group, receiving the intervention described above or 2) a control-group receiving treatment as usual.

It is hypothesized that the intervention will improve executive functioning, reported ADHD-symptoms and psychological well-being. It is also hypothesized that the participants sucessfully will formulate and implement GAS-goals and that goal attainment will sustain throughout the follow-up phase.

Conditions

  • Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Unspecified Type

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Goal Attainment Scaling

Individual goals will be formulated and measured by Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS). GAS provides a method for quantifying the attainment of individualized goals, typically set in cognitive rehabilitation. Different levels of outcomes for each goal are operationalized in a five-point scale and given a numeric value. For each individual goal, minus two refers to the goal attainment much less than expected, minus one refers to a little less than expected, zero refers to expected outcome, plus one refers to a little bit better than expected and plus two refers to goal attainment much better than expected. The participants can establish as many goals as desired. Outcomes can be summed within different patient goals, as well as across patients to assess overall outcome of treatment outcomes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Oslo

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Hospital, Akershus

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kjersti T Hanssen, PhD · University Hospital, Akershus

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-08-15
Primary Completion
2022-02-01
Completion
2022-02-01

Countries

  • Norway

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