Working Memory Training in College Students With Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder/Learning Disabilities

Attention Deficit Disorder Clinical Trial

Official title:

Working Memory Training in College Students With ADHD/LD

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01154686
• Other study ID #: 23977
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 14, 2010
• Last updated: June 30, 2010
• Start date: September 2009
• Est. completion date: September 2010

Study information

• Verified date: June 2010
• Source: University of Toronto
• Contact: Rachel Gropper, MA
• Phone: (416) 587-7944
• Email: rachelgropper[@]hotmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Ethics Review Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The overall objective of the current study is to determine whether computerized Working Memory (WM) training will enhance WM capacity in college students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)/Learning Disabilities (LD). There are also three additional objectives. The first is to determine whether improvements in WM will generalize to secondary outcome tasks, such as inhibitory control and planning. The second objective is to examine whether WM training will also ameliorate ADHD symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity. The last objective is to investigate whether improvements will be maintained at a two month follow-up period.

It is expected that the computerized WM training program will enhance WM capacity in college students with ADHD. In addition, it is believed that these increases in WM capacity will also lead to improvements in other executive functions. It is also hypothesized that WM training will lead to a reduction in ADHD symptomology. Lastly, these improvements should be maintained at three month follow-up.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: September 2010
• Est. primary completion date: September 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 35 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Diagnosis of ADHD/Learning Disability

• registered as a university student (full or part time)

• registered at accessibilities services

• taking at least one course

Exclusion Criteria:

• On a leave

Study Design

Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Attention Deficit Disorder
• Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Cogmed
The Cogmed Working Memory Training Program will be used as the experimental program because of preliminary evidence indicating its effectiveness in enhancing WM and reducing behavioural symptoms of inattention/hyperactivity in children. This software-based training program was designed to improve WM abilities, particularly in children with ADHD or severe attention problems. Training is implemented with a software program (RoboMemo©). It includes a set of auditory verbal and visual-spatial WM tasks presented via computer. All tasks involve: maintenance of simultaneous mental representations of multiple stimuli, unique sequencing of stimulus order in each trial and progressive adaptation of difficulty level as a function of individual performance.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	University of Toronto	Toronto	Ontario

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Toronto

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (auditory verbal working memory measure)		within 120 days	No
Secondary	Cognitive Failures Questionnaire		within 120 days	No