Clinical trial NCT06210113: Training Parents of Children With ADHD by Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction for Reducing Stress
Official title: The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Programme for Parents of Children With ADHD: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Stress, Psychological
Keywords: Mindfulness-based stress reduction, parental stress, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD
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Lead sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: The Salvation Army, Hong Kong and Macau Command
First posted: 2024-01-18
Enrollment: 36
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: MBSR intervention
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The study aimed at comparing the effects of 8-week MBSR programme intervention group with usual care group in reducing parental stress and improving quality of life of parents of children with ADHD in Chinese culture.

Detailed description: This study aimed at comparing the effects of 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) intervention with usual care in improving the parental stress, quality of life, and the feasibility and acceptability of MBSR of parents of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Chinese context after the coronavirus disease pandemic.

This study was designed as a pilot randomised controlled trial with single-blind repeated measures. By using convenience sampling, 36 parents of children with ADHD were recruited from the Parent Resource Centre of The Salvation Army (Centre), a Non-government Organization in Hong Kong, between July to August 2022. Centre staff invited parents of children aged 3-12 diagnosed with ADHD who can communicate and understand Cantonese to participate. Parents who had physical or severe intellectual disabilities, mental disorders or received any form of psychological intervention or psychiatric services were excluded from this study. All eligible parents were randomized to either the intervention group (n=18) or the usual care group (control) (n=18).

Parents assigned to the intervention group received the MBSR programme and usual services from the Centre. MBSR had eight weekly sessions of 2.5 hours each, plus a whole day retreat in small groups between session 6 and 7. The usual care group remained with usual support from the Centre, with interest activities such as cooking classes or calligraphy classes, but without any other form of intervention during this period.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* parents who have a child aged 3-12 with a confirmed diagnosis of ADHD with or without medications
* able to communicate and understand Cantonese

Exclusion Criteria:

* having physical disabilities or severe intellectual impairments
* any forms of mental disorders
* receiving any other form of psychological intervention, behavioural treatment, or psychiatric services

Primary outcomes:
measure: Self-report of parental stress
timeFrame: immediate after intervention
measure: self-report perceived stress
timeFrame: immediate after intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: self-report mindfulness in parenting
timeFrame: At one month after intervention
measure: Parent reports of children's ADHD behaviors in the past 6 months
timeFrame: At one month after intervention
measure: self-report quality of life
timeFrame: At one month after intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: Hong Kong
facility: The Salvation Army - Hong Kong and Macau Command
Study officials:
affiliation: School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
name: Yim Wah MAK, Ph.D
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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