Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) in Adolescents with ADHD and Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT)

Funding: CCRF Endowed Scholar Award (Becker) and General Pediatrics T32 Funds (Wiggs)
PIs: Stephen Becker, PhD & Kelsey Wiggs, PhD
Collaborators: John Mitchell, PhD (Duke)

The primary goals of this study are to test whether the Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPs) intervention for adolescents (1) is feasible and acceptable to implement in adolescents with ADHD+SCT, (2) improves SCT functioning (primary outcome), and (3) reduces core attentional symptoms and functional impairments (secondary outcomes). These goals will be accomplished by recruiting up to 15 adolescents (ages 13-17 years) with both ADHD and SCT who will participate in an open trial of the MAPs intervention through the Cincinnati Children’s Center for ADHD. Acceptability ratings, session attendance, and post-intervention feedback will be collected. SCT and impairment measures will be collected at pre-intervention, post-intervention, and three months post-intervention.

This study has two aims:

• Aim #1: Evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the MAPs intervention in an open trial of adolescents with ADHD+SCT.
• Aim #2: Examine the preliminary efficacy of the MAPs intervention for improving attention symptoms and associated impairments.