Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Conditions
Keywords
parenting management program, ADHD
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to explore the therapeutic effects of Barkley's parenting management program for Taiwanese school-aged children with ADHD. The investigators hypothesized that Barkley's parenting management program might empower the parents' competence to manage their school-aged children's ADHD-related disturbing behaviors as its previously-proven effects for parents and their preschool-aged children with ADHD.
Detailed description
Participants will be recruited from the child psychiatric clinics of NTUH-Yunlin branch and will include 30 school children with ADHD, their parents and teachers. The Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-epidemiology version will be adopted to confirm the diagnosis of ADHD. The child participants will received assessments of the Conner's Continuous Performance Test, and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-4th edition. We use ADHD symptoms, children't wellbeing, parent-child relationship, parent's competence and parenting stress as the outcome indices of therapeutic effects.Research instruments employed include CBCL, SNAP-IV, Parental Bonding Instrument, The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale, Chinese Health Questionnaire, Parenting Stress Index, Short Form, Multidimensional student's life satisfaction scale and Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALBarkley's parenting management program
It is a parent training group to teach behavior therapy techniques to parents of children with ADHD. The group will contain about 10 parents of children with ADHD. It will be conducted 1.5 hour per session, one session per week, and 11 sessions totally.
Sponsors
National Taiwan University Hospital
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Parents of 7-12 year-old aged children with ADHD and overall normal intelligence
Exclusion criteria
* Parents of children with comorbid autism spectrum disorders
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| SNAP-IV | pretest, before session 4, before session 8, posttest, 3 months after the program finished |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Parenting Stress Index, Short Form | pretest, posttest, 3 months after the program finished |
Countries
Taiwan
Contacts
Primary ContactShu-Tsen Liu, M.D
Outcome results
None listed