The Therapeutic Effects of Barkley's Parenting Management Program for Taiwanese School-Aged Children With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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
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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.

Official Title
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The Therapeutic Effects of Barkley's Parenting Management Program for Taiwanese School-aged Children With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Conditions
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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Barkley's parenting management program


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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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
Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Intervention/Treatment |
| --- |
|Behavioral: Barkley'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.|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SNAP-IV |  | pretest, before session 4, before session 8, posttest, 3 months after the program finished | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Parenting Stress Index, Short Form |  | pretest, posttest, 3 months after the program finished | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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parenting management program, ADHD