Authors : Shiva Janmohammadi, Ebrahim Pishyare, Anahita Khorammi and Hossain Roboby
Abstract: Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common psychiatric disorders. In the United States the incidence of the disorder has been reported from 2-7% and Prevalence of the disorder among Iranian children have been reported between 3 and 6%. In a study on the function of the frontal lobe and its relationship with eye movements showed that children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder have special problems in inhibition and control eye movements. In this study eye tracking intervention is used for improvement of sustain attention of attention deficit hyper activity children. The 39 boys with ages between 6-10 years are randomly selected. After that they are matched in terms of intelligence with Wechsler test, they divided into experimental and control group. Both groups use of similar occupational therapy treatment but experimental group also use eye tracking exercises both group evaluated with Conner’s rating scale (parent questionnaire), Continuous Performance Task (CPT-II) and Test of Visual- Motor Skills-Revised (TVMS-R) in pre and post-test. There was a significant difference in mean scores of cognitive problems (F = 9/22), coping behavior (F = 6.03) and hyperactivity (F = 9.77) between the two groups in the post-test (p<0.05) and in the continuous performance test scores, omission error (F = 17.89), commission errors (F = 19.45) and reaction time (F = 8.95) has been significant difference between control and experimental groups. In other words, educating pattern based on eye movement tracking improved continuous performance test and Conner’s rating scale result significantly at post-test. Based on the results of this study, it seems that intervention based on eye movement tracking lead to changes in levels of behavior. So, exercises that reinforce the eye movement pattern cause to improvement of cognitive function and behavioral aspect of this children.
Shiva Janmohammadi, Ebrahim Pishyare, Anahita Khorammi and Hossain Roboby, 2014. Effect of Visual Tracking Intervention on Attention and Behavior of Attention Deficit Hyper Activity Children. Research Journal of Medical Sciences, 8: 130-134.