Neurofeedback in ADHD: A qualitative study of strategy use in slow cortical potential training.

ABSTRACT:

Method

We collected 130 short semi-structured interviews following treatment sessions from 30 participants with ADHD receiving NF using slow cortical potential training (SCP). The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using thematic analysis. Themes where evaluated for changes over-time and between participants with high/low treatment compliance. Interviews from 14 participants who had undergone at least five completed interviews were examined in more depths, aiming to establish typical strategy/training profiles.

Results

We identified 16 strategies covering four domains: cognitive, physiological, emotional and unspecified. Typical of most strategies were that they served as a vehicle to regulate mental arousal. Overall, no clear patterns of changes over time wer

SUBMITTER: Hasslinger J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7272030 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature