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

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00946582
• Other study ID #: 200904005R
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 1
• First received: July 23, 2009
• Last updated: July 24, 2009
• Start date: June 2009
• Est. completion date: April 2010

Study information

• Verified date: July 2009
• Source: National Taiwan University Hospital
• Contact: Shu-Tsen Liu, M.D
• Phone: +886-928106143
• Email: zoe.green[@]msa.hinet.net
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Taiwan: Department of Health
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: April 2010
• Est. primary completion date: April 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

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

Study Design

Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
• Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• Hyperkinesis

Intervention

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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch	Douliou City	Yunlin County

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Taiwan University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	SNAP-IV		pretest, before session 4, before session 8, posttest, 3 months after the program finished	Yes
Secondary	Parenting Stress Index, Short Form		pretest, posttest, 3 months after the program finished	Yes