Clinical trial NCT02663986: Organizational Skill Training (OST) in Schools
Official title: A School-Based Program to Improve Children's Organizational Skills
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Keywords: Organization, Time Management, and Planning (OTMP)
Lead sponsor: NYU Langone Health
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-01-26
Enrollment: 35
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 8
Maximum age (years): 11
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The primary aim of this project is to address the need for an effective school-based intervention for elementary school-aged students with Organization, Time Management, and Planning (OTMP) deficits by adapting an evidence-supported clinic-based intervention so that it can be implemented in school settings. Investigators are learning to adapt an individual, clinic based program (OST-C) for children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) to children with OTMP problems. Investigators will be collecting data . To this end, investigators will be collecting data on implementation (such as feasibility and acceptability), program development (what changes to the individual OST-C program were made based on findings during this study) and limited outcome data (repeated measures collection and pre- and post-treatment collection on a small sample, no control group).


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Children will be recruited based on their parents' interest level in having them participate in a program to improve their organizational skills.
* Investigators will consider feedback from their 3rd to 5th grade general education or inclusion classroom teacher based on OTMP problems difficulties that interfere with functioning (difficulty in morning routine or end-of-day packing up routine, a high percentage of incomplete or missing assignments, messy desk or Seat Sack).
* Investigators will not use specific cutoffs on normed measures for determining eligibility based on these difficulties, as the intention is to develop a program that can be easily disseminated.
* Availability to attend twice-weekly sessions with the OTMP trainer either during the school day (during a time when they would not be pulled from academic content) or during after-school hours.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Children with Mental Retardation will not participate in the study, due to the difficulty they would likely have understanding the content of the sessions.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in scoring on Children's Organizational Skills Scale
timeFrame: 10 Weeks
measure: Change in score on Organizational Skills Scale-Parent (COSS-P)
timeFrame: 10 Weeks
measure: Change in score on Children's Organizational Skills Scale- (COSS-C)
timeFrame: 10 Weeks
measure: Change in score on Organizational Skills Scale-Teacher (COSS-T) Versions COSS-P, COSS-C, and COSS-T
timeFrame: 10 Weeks
measure: Change in Homework Problem Checklist (HPCL) Score
timeFrame: 10 Weeks
measure: Change in score on Academic Progress Report (APR)
timeFrame: 10 Weeks
measure: Change in score on Consumer Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ)
timeFrame: 10 Weeks
measure: Measures of Feasibility
timeFrame: 10 Weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New York
country: United States
facility: New York University School of Medicine
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: New York University Medical School
name: Howard B Abikoff, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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