نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 دانشگاه آزاد واحد تهران جنوب
2 دانشگاه بین المللی امام خمینی قزوین
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Aim: This study aims to determine the efficacy of drug therapy in comparison
with Neurological Feedback vs a combination of both on the memory of
children with attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Method: The
method was quasi-experimental with control group and pre-test, post-test, and
three a three month follow-up. The statistical population included 118 children
aged six to eleven years with ADHD who were referred to the Shahed and
Isargar Center in South East of Tehran in winter 2017. From this population,
80 children who received low scores in 4
th edition of Wechsler Intelligence
Memory Test, 2003 and had met research criteria were selected and randomly
divided into three experimental and one control groups. The experimental
groups underwent medication therapy with Ritalin tablets, Lubar’s (2013)
Neurological Feedback Program, and combination therapy in 25 sessions of 40
minutes twice a week. Results: Results showed that medication therapy (F=
23.51, P= 0.001), Neurological Feedback (F= 30.20, P= 0.001) and
combination therapy (F= 42, P= 0.001) had a significant incremental effect the
memory of children with ADHD. However comparisons of treatments showed
that combination therapy had a greater effect than the other two treatments, and
this effect remained stable for all three treatments at the follow up period.
Conclusion: Since combination therapy leads to increased memory of the
children with ADHD and on the other hand, it includes both drug therapy and
neurological feedback; hence, it can be considered as a more effective treatment
than other treatments in increasing the memory of children with ADHD.
کلیدواژهها [English]