INTERSTAARS: attention training for infants with elevated likelihood of developing ADHD: a proof-of-concept randomised controlled trial

Accepted/In Press date: 13 October 2021

Published date: 20 December 2021

Additional Information: This research was supported by awards from the Medical Research Council (MR/K021389/1; MHJ, TC), and MQ (MQ14PP83; MJ, EJ, TC, SW, PB, TS, ESB). The INTERSTAARS team is: Eleanor Braithwaite, Samuele Cortese, Laurel Fish, Chelsea Hobbs, Sarah Kalwarowsky, Anna Kolesnik, Irina Manneraak, Ceri Peck, Giulia Pecora, Abigail Runicles, Elle Scott, Salomé Silva, Harsharon Kaur Sondh, Megan Tongs. We thank the study families for the time and effort involved in participation and Professors Christopher Hollis (University of Nottingham), Richard Ashcroft (Queen Mary University), and Daniel Almirall (University of Michigan) for serving on the Independent Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee. Creation of the original training games was conducted by SW, supervised by MJ and Dr Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, funded by a Bloomsbury consortium scholarship and a program grant to MJ from the Medical Research Council. Additional development work on the games was funded by an MRC Centenary Award to SW and MRC intra-mural funding awarded via the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences unit. The extra training games needed for this study were programmed by Dr Daniel Mitchell and designed by SW, EJ, and TS, supervised by MJ. Extra games were needed to cover the full intervention period. The creation of these extra games was part funded by a Birkbeck Commercial Development grant awarded to TS and SW. Funding The INTERSTAARS trial is funded by the charity MQ: Transforming Mental Health (MQ14PP83) and MRC (MR/K021389/1). The funders had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing the report. Any views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the funders. AG was supported by an Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience PhD studentship. AP is partially supported by National Institute of Health Research NF-SI-0617-10120 and Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the UK NHS, NIHR, or the Department of Health and Social Care. The corresponding authors had full access to all the data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.

Local EPrints ID: 454526

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/454526

DOI: doi:10.1038/s41398-021-01698-9

PURE UUID: b804eae8-131d-41ff-ac7e-42365878319f

Date deposited: 15 Feb 2022 17:37

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