Principal Investigator: Traci M. Kennedy, PhD

Funding Source: NIAAA

The purpose of the TIPS study is to refine a smartphone-based intervention for young adults with ADHD. The goal is to help increase awareness of ADHD symptoms and related behaviors in everyday life, and to suggest personalized “tips,” or strategies, to help manage them.

You may be eligible if you are between the ages of 18 and 25, have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), read and understand English, own a smartphone, and are no longer in high school.

For this study, you would attend a virtual video visit (about 3 hours long) where you would answer questions. You will also be asked to identify an adult who knows you well (like a parent, partner, friend, or roommate), and they will be asked to fill out questions about your behavior via an online questionnaire. You would then do the smartphone-based intervention for 31 days, which involves answering questions about your behavior 4 times per day, viewing feedback on your ADHD symptoms, and getting personalized strategies suggested to you to help manage your ADHD and related behavior. Next, you would have a second 2-hour virtual video visit where you would again answer questions. Finally, you would have one final virtual video visit to participate in a 1-hour focus group to discuss your experience doing the intervention on your smartphone.

If you participate in all parts of this study, you can be compensated up to $400.

For more information about this research opportunity, or to see if you might be eligible, please contact the TIPS Study team at the Youth and Family Research Program:

TIPSstudy@upmc.edu
412-732-4911

Thank you for your interest!