Fang Yantong, Han Dai, Luo Hong
Children and Adolescents Mental Health Joint Clinic, The Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
Institutes of Psychological Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2019 Jun 4;15:1517-1523. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S206742. eCollection 2019.
The development of objective assessment tools for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has become a hot research topic in recent years. This study was conducted to explore the feasibility and availability of virtual reality (VR) for evaluating symptoms of ADHD. School-aged children were recruited. The children with ADHD or without ADHD were assigned into the ADHD group or Control group, respectively. They were all evaluated using the Conners' Parent Rating Scale (CPRS), Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Integrated Visual and Auditory Continuous Performance Test (IVA-CPT), and a VR test. The correct items, incorrect items, and the accuracy rate of the VR test of the children with ADHD were significantly different with those of the children in the Control group. The correct items, incorrect items, total time, and accuracy of the VR test were significantly correlated with the scores of IVA-CPT (auditory attention and visual attention), CPRS (impulsion/hyperactivity and ADHD index), and CBCL (attention problems and social problems), respectively. The results supported the discriminant validity of the VR test for evaluating ADHD in school-age children suffering from learning problems. The VR test results are associated with the commonly used clinical measurements results. A VR test is interesting for children and therefore it attracts them to complete the test; whilst at the same time, it can also effectively evaluate ADHD symptoms.
近年来，开发用于评估注意力缺陷多动障碍（ADHD）的客观评估工具已成为热门研究课题。本研究旨在探讨虚拟现实（VR）用于评估ADHD症状的可行性和实用性。招募了学龄儿童。患有ADHD和未患ADHD的儿童分别被分配到ADHD组和对照组。所有儿童均使用康纳斯父母评定量表（CPRS）、儿童行为量表（CBCL）、视听整合连续执行测试（IVA-CPT）和一项VR测试进行评估。ADHD儿童的VR测试正确项目、错误项目和准确率与对照组儿童存在显著差异。VR测试的正确项目、错误项目、总时间和准确率分别与IVA-CPT（听觉注意力和视觉注意力）、CPRS（冲动/多动和ADHD指数）以及CBCL（注意力问题和社交问题）的得分显著相关。结果支持了VR测试在评估有学习问题的学龄儿童ADHD方面的判别效度。VR测试结果与常用临床测量结果相关。VR测试对儿童来说很有趣，因此能吸引他们完成测试；同时，它还能有效评估ADHD症状。
