Clinical trial NCT01351246: Guided Self-Help for Parents of Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Official title: Guided Self-Help for Parents of Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Feasibility and Effectiveness Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Keywords: Program Evaluation
ADHD
Lead sponsor: University of Cologne
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Eli Lilly and Company
First posted: 2011-05-10
Enrollment: 300
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 6
Maximum age (years): 12
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Cognitive-behavioral based guided self-help for parents of children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is investigated in a feasibility and effectiveness study. The treatment is offered under routine-care conditions of the health-care system in Germany. Practicability, treatment participation and effectiveness is documented and tested in a one-group pre-test/post-test design.

Detailed description: Self-directed interventions may overcome many of the barriers associated with accessing face-to-face services, as there is lowered stigma and significantly reduced or eliminated cost, transport, and timing difficulties. Families can complete self-directed programs at home, in their own time and at their own pace. Furthermore self-administered programs are often very cost-effective and their use can ease the financial burden of mental health of the community. These parenting programs can be particularly effective by reaching the populace. Moreover in primary care settings where financial resources, time and expertise might be lacking to provide behavioral interventions, self-directed programs might be a promising tool for disseminating effective parenting interventions more widely.

Bibliotherapy is one form of self-directed therapy. In bibliotherapy a selected book is thought to meet the specific need of the person to be treated and reading is used as the therapeutic technique. In opposition to pure self-help programs, bibliotherapy in terms of guided self-help provides patients (or parents) with written instructions as well as therapeutic contacts at regular intervals. During these contacts, problems and questions can be discussed to give further support. Self-help interventions have already proven to be effective for adults with anxiety or affective disorders as well as for depressive adolescents. However there has only been little research concerning the reduction of children's behaviour problems through parental self-help programs under minimal contact conditions.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Child diagnosis of ADHD

Exclusion Criteria:

* Language or reading difficulties of participating parent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Total score of the Symptom Checklist Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (SCL-ADHD, Döpfner, Görtz-Dorten & Lehmkuhl, 2008
timeFrame: one year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
timeFrame: 1 year
measure: Quality of Life Questionnaire KINDL (Ravens-Sieberer & Bullinger, 2000)
timeFrame: 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Cologne
country: Germany
facility: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Cologne
state: NRW
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Cologne
name: Manfred Döpfner, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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