E3 Journal of Medical Research

E3 Journal of Medical Research Vol. 7 (1) pp. 001-006, January 2018; © E3 Journals; ISSN 2276-9900

Line Bisection Judgments in Untreated and Under-treatment ADHD Children

Abstract

The present study tries to investigate the differences in spatial attention between untreated ADHD children and under-treatment, drug therapy and psychotherapy, ADHD children. In order to do this study, nine untreated ADHD subjects (mean age: 8.2 ± 3.6) were compared to tenunder -treatment subjects (mean age: 9.6 ± 2.3) using line bisection task in paper form, introduced by Hausmann et al. 2003. For comprehending whether there are differences in spatial attention between groups, one way ANOVA( p<0.05) was used. And the results showed that the difference in the mean deviation of subjective midpoint of total lines of task was a statistical significant difference (F= 22.93, P<0.001). Also in right margin lines (F=10.614, P<0.005) and middle lines (F=8.289, P<0.01), the differences between two groups were statistically significant, where as such differences are not considered in left lateralized lines (F= 0.552, P<0.468). The results suggested that the left bias errors in under treatment ADHD children were the same errors considered in neurologically normal children and adults. On the other hand significant rightward errors were related to abnormality in un-medicated ADHD childrenʹs hemispheric function and spatial attention.

Keywords: ADHD, Spatial Attention, Line Bisection Task