The effectiveness of computerized cognitive rehabilitation on children’s executive function: Systematic review on national studies

Abstract

Introduction: Computer programs are crucial as a tool for rehabilitating and enhancing executive functions in children as an innovative approach. However, there are conflicting results on the effectiveness of these results. The purpose of the present study is to conduct a systematic review of experimental studies. Methods: This research is a systematic review study in which all articles published in the period were investigated from April 2011 to the end of March 2012. The present study was conducted at the internal databases SID, Magiran, and other databases, such as Google Scholar and PubMed, with the Persian and English keywords to find articles on the Internet. One hundred forty-five published articles were retrieved in Persian and English. Finally, reviewed were obtained only 23 related Persian articles because Latin article is lesser in period time. Results: In most articles, research without considering limits have been used in cognitive rehabilitation software without standardization and adaptability of language. Also, the articles' lack of longitudinal such as follow-up, this study is focusing on a partial cognitive function. Besides, the impact of cognitive rehabilitation has been neglected in daily activities and verbal learning. Conclusion: Computerized rehabilitation is used as an appropriate treatment for psychology. The computerized cognitive tasks in environmental education can be a good treatment, as well as other psychological interventions, and an approach to positively affect the performance of children. Actually, that more effective method is computer cognitive training with direct and individual education so that this issue needs to develop and design a Persian program.

Cognitive Rehabilitation Training in Improving Executive Function, Antisocial Behaviors, and Legal Problems in Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

“…The results of the posttest phase revealed that there is a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in executive functions (inhibition, attention transfer, emotional control, initiation, working memory, planning, material organization, and control) and impulsivity (cognitiveinattention problems, hyperactivity, opposition, and ADHD (P≤0.001). These findings are in line with those of earlier studies in this sector [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

“…Faizipour et al [12] and Nazarboland et al [13] demonstrated that cognitive rehabilitation training improved executive functions such as selective attention, inhibitory control, and working memory, as well as lowering impulsive behaviors in independent trials. Ranjbar et al [14] found that cognitive rehabilitation improves executive skills, including attention, focus, control, memory, and impulsive behaviors like hyperactivity and frustration. In another research, Robertmili et al [18] discovered that computer rehabilitation enhances children's working memory and lowers impulsive behaviors.…”

“…Rahmani et al [10] discovered that computer-assisted cognitive rehabilitation training enhances the executive and impulsive skills of children with ADHD. Rehabilitation training, in other studies, has also been demonstrated to increase executive skills such as working memory, attention span, cognitive flexibility, and impulsivity [11], processing speed and working memory capacity, impulsivity, and executive function [12], working memory speed [13], attention, concentration, control, memory, and impulsivity [14], response inhibition variables, continuous attention, focused attention, and selective attention [15], impulsivity, working memory [16], attention and behavioral problems [17], working memory and impulsive behavior reduction [18], and memory, attention, control, and inhibition functions [19].…”