Clinical Trial: Enhancing Attention in Adults With Compulsive Hoarding
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Enhancing Attention in Adults With Compulsive Hoarding: A Pilot Study
Brief Summary: Available data suggest that compulsive hoarders have cognitive deficits, particularly with sustaining attention that might contribute their hoarding symptoms.
Detailed Summary:
Compulsive hoarders perform significantly worse than healthy controls on standard attention tasks. These data suggest that the inability to sustain focus may interfere with hoarders' ability to organize, categorize and make decisions about discarding possessions. Stimulants are first-line treatments for ADHD, improve CPT performance in people with ADHD and enhance school performance in children with ADHD. Extended release formulations, such as methylphenidate ER, are associated with better medication compliance. Together, these data suggest that adjunctive methylphenidate ER might be a novel way to improve attention in compulsive hoarders which might improve hoarding symptoms.
The investigators hypothesis is that adjunctive methylphenidate ER will improve attention in compulsive hoarders aged 18-55. The investigators will also explore the safety of methylphenidate ER administration in compulsive hoarders.
Sponsor: New York State Psychiatric Institute
Current Primary Outcome: Number of Patients Who Met and Exceeded Response Criteria of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptom Scale [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]
Original Primary Outcome: improvement on attention as measured by the ADHDSS (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Symptom Scale) [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]
Current Secondary Outcome: Number of Patients Who Met Response Criteria for the Saving Inventory-Revised. [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]
Original Secondary Outcome:
Information By: New York State Psychiatric Institute
Dates:
Date Received: April 5, 2010
Date Started: April 2010
Date Completion:
Last Updated: September 10, 2014
Last Verified: August 2014