An observational study in Child Behavior, Problem Behavior and Executive Dysfunction, sponsored by Massachusetts General Hospital. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 7 Years to 14 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-06-15.
Sponsored by Massachusetts General Hospital · Observational
In this project, the investigators will extend prior results of parent-reported executive function growth and symptom reduction in children receiving home-based treatment with the Collaborative Problem Solving treatment approach (CPS), with a particular focus on examining children who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The investigators will examine executive functioning (EF) of children who are receiving CPS, measuring EF with parent-report and objective computer-based tasks, at two timepoints: at the start of treatment and approximately four months later, and will collect symptoms at these plus three additional timepoints: at discharge, 6-months after discharge, and 12-months after discharge.
178 studies on the registry are indexed under Problem Behavior; 47 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 54 is close to the median of 53 across 12 observational studies indexed under Problem Behavior.
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Compared within Problem Behavior, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Child Behavior. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →
The participants of this study are youth (ages 7 to 14) who are the identified clients being seen in home-based therapy at identified Youth Villages sites in Massachusetts.
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CPS is an approach for understanding and reducing challenging behavior in youth. Under CPS, caregivers are taught to understand and identify the specific neurocognitive skill deficits that underlie their child's challenging behavior. Then the caregivers are taught to interact with the child in a way that solves chronic behavior problems while building the lagging neurocognitive skills to avoid future problems.
Also known as: CPS
Change in Behavioral Symptoms
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (Parent-report measuring child emotional problems, conduct issues, hyperactivity/inattention, peer relationship problems, and pro- social behavior)
Time frame: Baseline, 4 months, discharge, 6 months post-discharge, and 12 months post-discharge
Change in Behavioral Symptoms
Clinical Global Impressions (Measures clients' symptom severity, global improvement, and therapeutic response)
Time frame: Baseline, 4 months, and discharge
Change in Executive Functioning Skills
Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Functioning (Parent-report measuring deficits in different domains of executive functioning)
Time frame: Baseline and 4 months
Change in Executive Functioning Skills
CANTAB computer-based cognitive tasks (Motor Screening Task, Stop Signal Task, Spatial Span, Multitasking Test, Stockings of Cambridge, Intra-Extra Dimensional Set Shift)
Time frame: Baseline and 4 months
Change in Child-Parent Relationship
Child-Parent Relationship Scale (A 15-question measure of parents perceptions of their relationship with their child by using a scale of 1-5 where 1 "definitely does not apply" and a 5 "definitely applies to the child-parent relationship")
Time frame: Baseline and 4 months
Treatment providers' fidelity to Collaborative Problem Solving (as a moderator)
CPS Treatment Integrity Rating Form Short (Observational ratings by trained CPS coaches that quantitatively measure providers' fidelity to the practice of the CPS treatment approach)
Time frame: provider rating made closest in proximity to four-month timepoint
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