碩士 / 樹德科技大學 / 兒童與家庭服務系 / 99 / There are only few reports of intervention studies of fish oil on visual perception and attention problems in school-aged ADHD-children in Taiwan.
Objective: To assess the effects of visual perception and attention problems in school-aged ADHD-children after taking fish oil.
Design: First to fifth graders (6-11 years of age) studied in primary school from a rehabilitation clinic in Kaohsiung city, were randomly divided into either a fish oil group (n=12) or a control group (n=12). They were all diagnosed as ADHD and didn’t receive any drug or other treatment at the same time. Subjects in fish oil group took two fish oil capsules per day (480mg DHA and 720mg EPA/day) for twelve weeks. Others in control group followed the original daily routine and didn’t take any nutrients. Two groups were both administered by TVPS-3 and Multi-dimensional Attention Test at the start and the end of the study. Simultaneously, parents helped to finish the Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Test (ADHDT).
Results: Regular supplement with fish oil associated significantly with the performance in visual perception. After twelve weeks, the fish oil group showed a significant improvement in subtests of visual discrimination (VD), visual memory (VM), spatial relationship (SR), sequential memory (SM) and figure ground (FG) than control group and than in pretest. But there were no differences between two groups in posttests of form constancy (FC) and visual closure (VC) after intervention. In results of attention, the fish oil group showed significant improvement in selective and persistent subtests than control group and than in pretest. However, there were no differences between two groups in subtest of separate attention after intervention. In symptoms of ADHD, the fish oil group showed a significant decrease compared with control group after intervention.
Conclusions: Regular supplement with fish oil could improve the performance of school-aged ADHD-children in visual perception, attention and reduce the symptoms interfered by ADHD.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/099STU05709020 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Mao-Hsun Lin, 林茂勳 |
| Contributors | 顏世慧 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 70 |
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