Designing a Clinical Decision Support System for Recommending Computerized Cognitive Rehabilitation Programs: the Experience of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

According to the American Psychiatry Association, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in the childhood. Considering the importance of cognitive approaches to rehab such a disorder, the purpose of the present study is to design a clinical decision support system to propose suitable computerized cognitive rehabilitation programs. At first, the scores of parameters of attention and response control in the IVA test were extracted. Then, by interviewing with experts and analyzing the results, a set of computerized cognitive rehabilitation programs (Captain Log, Lumosity, Maghzine) to empower attention and response control parameters were selected, modeled and implemented as if-then rules. To design and implement the system, the MATLAB (2016 b) programming environment was used. Designed clinical decision support system was able to provide computerized cognitive rehabilitation programs with regard to defective attention and response control parameters. It could help therapists and psychiatrists to improve the symptoms and rehab the children and adolescents with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.