Treatment Study of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

摘要

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is sponsoring the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) to assess the effectiveness of different treatment protocols for children with ADHD. The U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) are also supporting this research because the results will have important implications for improving educational outcomes and reducing delinquent behavior in children who have this disorder. This is the first major NIMH collaborative clinical trial to focus on a childhood mental disorder and the largest clinical trial ever conducted by NIMH. Nearly 600 children ages 79 years have been randomly assigned to 1 of 4 treatment groups: (1) medication management only, (2) behavioral treatment only, (3) a combination of medication and behavioral treatment, and (4) routine community care (the control group). The primary study sites include Columbia University in New York City; Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC; Western Psychiatric Institute in Pittsburgh, PA; Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, NY; the University of California at Berkeley; and the University of California at Irvine. Additional subcontractor sites include Montreal Childrens Hospital in Quebec, Canada; Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City; and the University of California at San Francisco.