NCT04178421

Computerized Eye-tracking Attention Training for Children With Special Needs

Completed NA Last updated 26 November 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Computerized training program in ADHD in 96 participants. Completed in 10 September 2019.

Timeline

1 September 2018

Primary endpoint
30 August 2019

10 September 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Chinese University of Hong Kong
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	96
Start date	1 September 2018
Primary completion	30 August 2019
Estimated completion	10 September 2019
Sites	1 location across Hong Kong

Drugs / interventions tested

• Computerized training program
• Placebo

Conditions studied

• ADHD — all drugs for ADHD →
• ASD — all drugs for ASD →
• Learning Disorders — all drugs for Learning Disorders →

Sponsor

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Who can join

Adults 6 to 12, any sex, with ADHD or ASD. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Children with special needs (e.g. autistic spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) are found to have sustained attention problems. Several behavioral interventions have been carried out in the past to improve this situation. However, these interventions are often involved a high administration cost. Recently, researchers have been focusing on training the eye gaze fixation using the eye-tracking training games, as some of the research studies reported a correlation between atypical eye gaze patterns with poor sustained attention. The objective of the present study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a computerized eye-tracking attention training. Two batches of 48 primary school students will be recruited from email and the subject pool of the Department of Psychology of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Participants are dividedly randomly and equally into either intervention or control group. Participants in both groups will undergo pre- and post-assessments measuring the executive function and attention before and after the intervention, respectively. However, there will be eight eye-tracking training sessions for the intervention group, but only the assessments are received in the control group. It is hypothesized that after the training, the performance of the training games and assessments will improve, indicated by increasing accuracy rates, as well as the reaction time of the tasks. The results would provide important information on the value of computerized eye gaze training and would guide the direction of interventions that target on improving the sustained attention and impulse control of children with special needs.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Eye-Tracking Training Improves Inhibitory Control in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
   Lee TL, Yeung MK, Sze SL, Chan AS. · · 2021 · cited 16× · PMID 33801559 · DOI 10.3390/brainsci11030314