Comparative Efficacy and Acceptability of Nonpharmacotherapy in the Treatment of Inattention for ADHD: A Network Meta-Analysis

This article is aimed to compare the efficacy and acceptability of exercise intervention with other nonpharmacological therapies in improving attention ADHD patients then rank those therapies. Methods. Relevant RCT studies from Cochrane Library, Web Science, Psycinfo, PubMed were systematically searched January 2011 2020. The literature was screened, researchers extracted used Stata16 WinBugs1.4 independently analyze data. Results. improvement “attention deficit” measured 83 independent 4,998 participants 14 Therapies ranked as follows, according cumulative probability area under curve (SUCRA): (1) meditation cognitive; (2) sport therapy; (3) vitamin mineral; (4) cognitive behavioral (5) computer training; (6) psychological education; (7) working memory (8) neurofeedback (9) polyunsaturated fatty acids; (10) mineral supplements; (11) meditation; (12) vitamin; (13) biofeedback (14) school-based training. However, because effect size therapy at a marginally significant level (SMD = ?1.07, (?2.15, 0.00)), robustness results far lower than that therapy. Therefore, careful interpretation needed practice. Conclusion. Considering various therapies, has more stable on deficit. Secondly, therapy, training can also be effective complementary tools.