Group Training for Parents Whose Children Suffer From ADHD and Comorbidity Using a Behavioral-Dynamic Approach (SPBT)

Assuta Hospital Systems

Status: Completed

Conditions: ADHD

Treatments: Behavioral: Parent Behavioral Training; Behavioral: Schema Parent Behavioral Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02824796

2015096

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a new parent training protocol for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can over perform the state of the art Parent Training protocol (PBT) by increasing the long term effectiveness of the treatment, reducing the dropout rate and reducing the comorbidities.

Enrollment: 83 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents to children 6-12 with ADHD symptoms according to the criteria of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - 5th edition (DSM-V)
• The child was diagnosed in the past as ADHD by MD

Exclusion criteria

• Parents with psychotic symptoms or suicidality
• Parents with active manic episode
• Parents with substance dependence
• Parents with autism spectrum disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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83 participants in 2 patient groups

Schema Parent Behavioral Training

Experimental group

Description:

An enhanced protocol which combines a Schema Focused Therapy (SFT) and Behavioral Parent Training (PBT)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Schema Parent Behavioral Training

Parent Behavioral Training

Active Comparator group

Description:

Usually medication \& The usual PBT treatment

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parent Behavioral Training