Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in College Students - Study 1

NCT ID: NCT05588505

Last Updated: 2025-01-23

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 41 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-09-01
• Study Completion Date: 2025-01-20

Brief Summary

College students with ADHD have significant difficulty effectively managing their time, organizing, planning, and completing their academic work. As a result, they typically have lower grade-point averages, more course failures and withdrawals, are more likely to be placed on academic probation and are less likely to graduate from college than students without ADHD. The purpose of this project is to refine and test a psychological intervention on campus to help students with ADHD develop these self-management skills so that they can be more successful in college and avoid these negative outcomes.

Detailed Description

Participants will be assessed pre- and post-intervention during interviews with the clinician-investigators and on several self-report questionnaires designed to assess their self-management of time, organization, and planning. Feedback of the results will be discussed with them, including any recommendations for further treatment.

Conditions

ADHD

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy delivered in a group format

Participating students will be assessed before and after the 12-week group Cognitive-Behavioral intervention to ascertain their response to the treatment.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Targeting Executive Dysfunction in College Students with ADHD

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The intervention is 12 weeks long, made up of one 2- hour session each week. These sessions are designed to help the participants develop strategies to improve their executive functioning skills including self- care, time management and organizational skills. These skills will also be applied to specific academic tasks such as note-taking during reading and lectures, organizing and conducting research, and writing papers.

Interventions

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Targeting Executive Dysfunction in College Students with ADHD

The intervention is 12 weeks long, made up of one 2- hour session each week. These sessions are designed to help the participants develop strategies to improve their executive functioning skills including self- care, time management and organizational skills. These skills will also be applied to specific academic tasks such as note-taking during reading and lectures, organizing and conducting research, and writing papers.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Student at The City College of New York
• Diagnosis of ADHD, Inattentive or Combined Subtype
• In good physical health

Exclusion Criteria

• Actively abusing drugs or alcohol within the past 6 months
• Actively suicidal
• Diagnosis of borderline personality disorder
• Diagnosis of bipolar disorder
• Diagnosis of a psychotic disorder
• Neurological disorder (such as traumatic brain injury, brain tumor, Parkinson's)
• History of childhood abuse or trauma or psychiatric condition that prevents clear
• confirmation of the presence of ADHD in childhood
• Any other acute psychiatric condition (e.g. acute panic disorder, severe depression) with treatment needs that take precedence over ADHD.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 30 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

The City College of New York

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Northwell Health

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Mary V. Solanto, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Northwell Health

Anthony Rostain, M.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Cooper School of Medicine at Rowan University

Locations

City College of New York

New York, New York, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

20-0013

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id