The Effects of Stimulant Medication on the Online Story Narrations of Children with ADHD
نویسندگان
چکیده
The current study investigated the inclusion of goal-based story events in the online story narrations of children with ADHD, as compared with their peers, and explored the effect of stimulant medication on the narrations in children with ADHD. Children completed a narration task on two separate occasions. Children with ADHD (n = 17) completed one narration on medication and the other one on placebo. Results indicated that narrations of comparison children (n= 25) were significantly more likely than narrations of children with ADHD to include the story’s positive outcome, completion of the story’s overall goal, and specific attempts linked to the goal. Children with ADHD included a larger total number of clauses in their narrations when on stimulant medication than when on placebo, but medication showed no significant effects for any other variables. Results indicate that stimulant medication may not be effective at reducing goal-based story comprehension deficits in children with ADHD.
منابع مشابه
Comparing Auditory Noise Treatment with Stimulant Medication on Cognitive Task Performance in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Results from a Pilot Study
BACKGROUND Recent research has shown that acoustic white noise (80 dB) can improve task performance in people with attention deficits and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This is attributed to the phenomenon of stochastic resonance in which a certain amount of noise can improve performance in a brain that is not working at its optimum. We compare here the effect of noise expo...
متن کاملHeterogeneity in the pharmacological treatment of children with ADHD: cognitive, behavioral, and social functioning differences.
OBJECTIVE To investigate the extent to which children with ADHD in various medication statuses (i.e., medication naïve, pure stimulant, stimulant plus another medication, nonstimulants) varied on cognitive or academic, behavioral, and social functioning during a psychoeducational assessment battery. METHOD Participants for this study consisted of 66 children (20 girls) with a Diagnostic and S...
متن کاملUsing stimulants in children with ADHD.
WE READ WITH GREAT INTEREST JENNIFER Couzin’s article “Pediatric study of ADHD drug draws high-level public review” (News of the Week, 20 Aug., p. 1088), which describes “heated debate among pediatricians and bioethicists” over the ethics of a study proposing to evaluate the effects of stimulant medication in typically developing children. As one pediatrician and bioethicist stated in the artic...
متن کاملReturning to Stimulants in Children with Treatment Resistant ADHD: A Case Series.
Objective To present a case series of children retrialed on stimulants after initial poor stimulant responses given the paucity of information on the usefulness of this strategy. Methods Health records from an ADHD medication service were obtained for six children who: (i) were medication naïve at service entry; (ii) had trials of at least one stimulant from each stimulant class; (iii) subseq...
متن کاملAre there placebo effects in the medication treatment of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder?
Placebos have been shown to produce significant positive changes in several health and mental health problems, referred to as placebo effects. Although it is well established that stimulant medication is an empirically supported treatment for children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), little is known about the role of placebos in the medication treatment of children with ADH...
متن کامل