Effectiveness of home based therapy for children with ADHD, who have responded insufficiently to regular treatment: a randomised controlled study.

Completed

• Conditions: ADHD; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; 10012562

• Registration Number: NL-OMON39357
• Lead Sponsor: Accare

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Last Update Posted: 6 May 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

Children have to meet the following inclusion criteria:
1. The child is 6 to 13 years old who are at elementery school
2. The child meets DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) criteria for ADHD, any subtype, as determined through a semi-structured interview (such as the Parent Interview of Child Symptoms [Schachar et al., 1994] and the Teacher Telephone Interview [Tannock et al., 1995] at time of referral.
3.The parents and/or the child have received psycho-education and have either started or considered pharmacological treatments directed at ADHD symptoms, and have at least made a start with outpatient behavioral parent training.
4. The child has a DSM-IV-TR Global Assessment of Functioningscore < 55, as determined by the last involved clinician.
5. The child has an intensity scale score > 130 and problem scale score > 2 (irrespective of item 36, i.e. referring to enuresis nocturna) on the Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory completed by the primary care-taker.
6. The child has a total verbal, and performance IQ > 70 as assessed with a standardized intelligence test.
7. The legal parent(s) caretaker(s) have provided written consent for participating in the study, in accordance with the rules laid down in the Dutch *Wet medisch-wetenschappelijk onderzoek met mensen*.

Exclusion Criteria

1. The child has a medical ailment, which prohibits participation in the study.
2. One of the parents/caretakers is unable to understand or imitate instructions.
3. The child is more than three days a week absent from the home of the parent(s) who participate in the treatment.
4.The family lives or is planning to move to a location more than one hour travel time from the Groningen Accare outpatient clinic.
5.The family has followed a form of home-based therapy through Accare or Jonx Lentis during the previous year.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Parent reported disruptive behavior problems. </p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Main secondary study parameters are children*s internalizing problems, parent<br /><br>reported impairment of the child, and parenting skills.</p><br>