Document Type : Original article
Authors
1 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Payme Noor, Tehran, Iran.
2 M.Sc in Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Payme Noor, Tehran, Iran.
3 Instructor, Occupational Therapy Department, School of Rehabilitation, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of computerized cognitive rehabilitation on visual and auditory attention and response control in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. This study was a pre-test-post-test experimental research with control group comparison. The IVA-2 test was used for evaluation. The statistical population included all children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder between the ages of 6 and 12 who had referred to a mental occupational therapy and speech therapy center for children in Arak city. 32 available children with ADHD were selected and randomly allocated into the experimental and control groups. In addition to routine treatments, the experimental group received a total of 21 sessions of computerized cognitive rehabilitation program in half-hour sessions 3 times a week for 7 weeks. To analyze the data, multivariate analysis of covariance was used in spss-24 software. Data analysis indicated a statistically significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores in the two experimental and control groups. The research findings showed that computerized cognitive rehabilitation was effective on the attention and control of visual and auditory responses of children with ADHD (p<0.01).
Keywords
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Computerized Cognitive Rehabilitation
- Visual Attention
- Auditory Attention
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