CHILD-BRIGHT Network and Ehave Start Enrollment for Cognitive Rehabilitation Trial for Children with ADHD, Autism, and Congenital Heart Disease
CHILD-BRIGHT Network and Ehave Start Enrollment for Cognitive Rehabilitation Trial for Children with ADHD, Autism, and Congenital Heart Disease |
[28-June-2018] |
OAKVILLE, Ontario, June 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The CHILD-BRIGHT Network, a Canadian patient-oriented research network focussed on pediatric brain-based developmental disorders, and Ehave, Inc. (OTCQB: EHVVF), a healthcare company dedicated to empowering the mental health community with next-generation digital solutions, today announced the start of enrollment for the CHILD-BRIGHT Mega Team research project trial, a Canadian-developed video game-based cognitive intervention that aims to improve executive functions in children with brain-based developmental disabilities such as Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), or born with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD). In Canada, as many as 850,000 children under the age of 14 are living with a brain-based developmental disability, many of whom struggle with executive functions such as self-regulation, attention, impulsivity, and academic efficiency and accuracy. CHILD-BRIGHT investigators at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), with industry partner Ehave, have developed Mega Team, a series of innovative cognitive rehabilitation video games to improve executive functions The clinical trial, led by Dr. Jennifer Crosbie, Associate Scientist in the SickKids Research Institute and Principal Investigator of the project within the CHILD-BRIGHT Network, will enroll 460 children between the ages of 6 and 12 with ADHD, ASD or CHD. Children will play a series of games that target response inhibition time and working memory. Via in-clinic assessments at the start and end of the trial, and again 3 months later, the research team will measure improvements in executive functions, attention and self-regulation. "Currently, cognitive rehabilitation interventions geared to improving cognitive deficits associated with neurodevelopmental disorders place high demands on families for professional supervision, are expensive, and have minimal established impact on behavioural regulation," says Dr. Crosbie. "Our Mega Team game is innovative because it is a non-pharmacological intervention that is carried out at home, via an online gaming platform, and that requires very little trainer supervision. Because the game's platform is engaging, children are motivated to play." Industry partner Ehave developed the mental health informatics solution Ehave Connect. The Ehave Connect platform efficiently and effectively captures data from intake to assessment to diagnosis to treatment plan to outcomes. It gives mental health clinicians and researchers a complete picture of their patients using tools they already rely upon and provides access to innovative solutions such as the CHILD-BRIGHT Mega Team game. Mega Team training is tracked on the platform, and outcomes are available to the researchers to visualize the performance over time. "We feel there is strong clinical potential for the Mega Team game in children with ADHD, ASD and CHD," said Prateek Dwivedi, CEO of Ehave. "The trial with the CHILD-BRIGHT Network is an important step to validate the treatment impact of Mega Team with high-quality clinical rigour. It is only with this validation that clinicians, parents, and patients can feel confident in the efficacy and safety of our digital therapy as a drug-sparing or drug-reducing treatment option." A pilot of the Mega Team project supported by the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI) and the Province of Ontario Neurodevelopmental (POND) Network was carried out in 2017 and provided initial evidence that game-based cognitive rehabilitation may be a promising intervention for executive function deficits. CHILD-BRIGHT Mega Team enrollment information is available at www.child-bright.ca/megateam or by contacting the project coordinator at mega.team@sickkids.ca or 416-813-8210. Project Funding Partners About the CHILD-BRIGHT Network About Ehave
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