title: Attention training for school-aged children with ADHD: results of an open trial.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The article discusses a feasibility study conducted to examine whether Pay Attention!, an intervention training sustained, selective, alternating, and divided attention, could be utilized in a clinical setting with children diagnosed with ADHD, and whether children who received the intervention made attention and executive functioning gains.
  
  
  METHODS
  After a diagnostic and baseline evaluation, 23 school-aged children with ADHD participate in up to 16 sessions of Pay Attention! and the outcomes are evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results show the intervention is feasible to administer and acceptable to participants. Parents and clinicians rate fewer ADHD symptoms following the intervention and report improvements in executive function. Child performance on neuropsychological tests showed improvements in fluid reasoning and cognitive flexibility and working memory.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings suggest that a randomized clinical trial of Pay Attention! is warranted to investigate its viability as a treatment for attention and executive functioning deficits in ADHD.
authors.affiliation: UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390-8589, USA. leanne.tamm@utsouthwestern.edu
authors.forename: Leanne
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tamm
authors.forename: Carroll
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: Laure
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ames
authors.forename: Joyce
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pickering
authors.forename: Cheryl H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Silver
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stavinoha
authors.forename: Christine L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Castillo
authors.forename: Jeanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rintelmann
authors.forename: Jarrette
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Foxwell
authors.forename: S Gina
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Bolanos
authors.forename: Tabatha
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authors.lastname: Hines
authors.forename: Paul A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Nakonezny
authors.forename: Graham
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Emslie
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000628:therapy*; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002648:Child; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D018579:Patient Selection; D016896:Treatment Outcome