Media Background and Test Performance

Test Performance When Distracted or Not Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01593878
• Other study ID #: Distracted Homework
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 4, 2012
• Last updated: March 24, 2014
• Start date: June 2012
• Est. completion date: July 2013

Study information

• Verified date: March 2014
• Source: Seattle Children's Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aims to test whether middle school students test performance is affected by background TV. Students will complete a high school entrance exam either with or without a TV on in the test room. Scores will be compared.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: July 2013
• Est. primary completion date: July 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 10 Years to 15 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Grades 6-8

Exclusion Criteria:

• non english speaking

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Test Performance When Distracted or Not

Intervention

Other:
• TV
test taken with TV on

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Seattle Children's Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	ISEE test prep evaluation		immediate (day 1)	No