Supplements and Social Skills Intervention Study

Launched by NATIONAL HEALTHCARE GROUP, SINGAPORE · Jan 8, 2009

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ClinConnect Summary

Serious adult crime and violence is a social problem despite decades of intervention and prevention work. One of the reasons for the world-wide failure to prevent this problem stems from (a) a failure to tackle the biological component of the crime/ violence equation in treatment programs, and (b) the failure to tackle this adult condition in its formative childhood origins. Investing modest resources in early biosocial prevention programs could yield enormous long-term financial dividends in terms of the saved legal, medical, social, and psychological costs resulting from adult crime. This...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Subjects between ages 7 and 16 years
• • Subjects who fulfils all criteria for a DSM-IV diagnosis of ADHD, conduct disorder, or oppositional defiant disorder
• • Subjects with willingness to participate in a randomized, double-blind controlled trial,
• • Subjects with complete with written, informed parental consent and assent
• • Subjects with IQ of 70 or more
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Subjects who have IQ in the below 70
• • Subjects who are younger than 7 years old
• • Those without written parental consent will not be allowed to participate in the study
• • Those with brain pathology such as serious head injury, epilepsy will be excluded