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

Phase 1

• Conditions: Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

• Registration Number: NCT00946582
• Lead Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital

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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-06
• Status Verified: 2009-07
• Study First Submitted: 2009-07-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-07-24
• Last Update Submitted: 2009-07-24
• Study First Posted: 2009-07-27
• Last Update Posted: 2009-07-27
• Primary Completion: 2010-04
• Study Completion: 2010-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• Parents of 7-12 year-old aged children with ADHD and overall normal intelligence

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Exclusion Criteria

• Parents of children with comorbid autism spectrum disorders

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
SNAP-IV	pretest, before session 4, before session 8, posttest, 3 months after the program finished

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Parenting Stress Index, Short Form	pretest, posttest, 3 months after the program finished

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch; 🇨🇳 Douliou City, Yunlin County, Taiwan