The effect of cognitive rehabilitation on the improvement of attention deficit disorder in patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of cognitive rehabilitation on the improvement of attention deficit disorder in patients with hyperactivity disorder, based on quasi-experimental and pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population consisted of all patients with a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Roozbeh Psychiatric Hospital in Tehran (1397-1396). The patients were selected randomly by access sampling method and 30 entry and exit criteria were randomly selected and divided into two groups: control and Witnessed. Subjects, before and after the intervention, which included the Stroup computer test (1935) and the continuous performance test (Razold et al. 1956), were tested by the sequencing test (Battery, 1994) and Focus Point Questionnaire (Woody, Chamblass & Glass, 1997 quoted by Khayr et al. 2008) were evaluated. The results of the study indicated that cognitive rehabilitation affects the improvement of attention deficit disorder in patients with attention deficit, selective attention, continuous attention, distributed attention hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).