The Executive Function Characteristics of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Clock Drawing Test
- VernacularTitle:ADHD儿童在钟表绘画测验中的执行功能特征
- Author:
Menglong WANG
;
Jin JING
;
Xu HUANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD);
clock drawing test (CDT);
executive functions (EF);
case control study
- From:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
1992;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To study the eExecutive fFunctions Characteristics of Cchildren with Aattention dDeficit hHyperactivity Ddisorder in Cclock Ddrawing Ttest. Methods: 60 ADHD children and 60 normal children awere tested by CDT. Then analyze the data to detect the difference of Executive Functions of two growps. Results:ADHD group geot significant lower scores than control group on both time total score (data) and clock face structure score. (3.23?1.40/4.15?0.78,11.2?1.48/11.90?0.76,t=7.742、5.073,P0.05). Conclusions: the lower score in CDT showed that ADHD child have some weaknesses in planning , in attention regulating and in working memory. The core of these weaknesses is failing of execute function.
