Comparison of Vitamin D, Neurofeedback, and Neurofeedback Combined with Vitamin D Supplementation in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in this randomized controlled trial publication.

Nowadays, some treatments such as neurofeedback and Vitamin D Supplementation are of great importance in the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Who Took Part

The study group was 120 patients.

PubMed indexes the participants as children and teenagers.

In this study from March 2020 to June 2020, the researchers enrolled a total of 120 patients (6-15 years old) who were referred to the Mehr psychiatric hospital (affiliated to Lorestan University of Medical Sciences).

Patients were then randomly categorized into three experimental groups and one control group.

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was a randomized study.

Because people in this Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc study were split into groups at random, differences between the groups are less likely to reflect who happened to join each one.

The control group was given no treatment.

Vitamin D serum level was evaluated at baseline, 4, 8, and 12 weeks in all participants.

For data collection, the Parent Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Rating Scale-IV (ADHD-RS-IV) was applied.

The obtained information was analyzed using repeated measure variance analysis.

What Was Measured

PubMed files the paper under topics including Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Dietary Supplements, Neurofeedback, Vitamin D and Vitamins.

The authors tagged it with the keywords Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Brain waves, Combined treatment and Supplementation.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 120 patients.

Results are reported in around 4 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 2022 (Archives of Iranian medicine), a journal based in Iran.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.