Long-acting ADHD medicine helped children put things off less before school
The study
Who took part
161 children aged 6 to 12 with ADHD at 22 trial sites. 81 took the medicine and 80 took a dummy pill.
What they did
For 3 weeks, one group took a long-acting form of methylphenidate, an ADHD medicine, reaching about 68 mg on average. It is made to work by early morning. The other group took a dummy pill.
What happened
Putting things off was one of 20 questions about how children coped before school. The medicine group did better on it than the dummy-pill group. But the researchers picked out this question after the trial, and the short summary gives no sizes. The drug's maker paid for the trial.
- Helped
After 3 weeks, kids with ADHD on the medicine put things off less before school than kids on dummy pills.
Randomised trial of 161 children aged 6 to 12 with ADHD · vs children who took a dummy pill · they rated themselves · ⚠ only a short summary available; groups weren't properly compared
Source
130 Consistent Efficacy of DR/ER-MPH on Early Morning Functioning in Children With ADHD: Analysis of BSFQ Item Ratings From a Pivotal Phase 3 Trial (2018)
DOI: 10.1017/s1092852918000275 (opens in a new tab)
