Mindfulness-based Program for Children With Disruptive Behavior Disorder

IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris

Status: Completed

Conditions: Disruptive Behavior Disorder; Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders; Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness-based program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03698240

MIND-DBD

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present RCT study investigates whether combined mindfulness program for children and their parents was beneficial for Italian children, aged 8-12, with disruptive behavior diagnosis (DBD). The study tests the program effects on children's behavioral difficulties in school and home contexts; children's and parents' mindfulness abilities; children's impulsiveness; and parents' stress. The study include a sample of 50 children randomly allocate to the intervention or to the control condition (wait-list control sample). Repeated measures of children's and parents' and teachers' reported measures will be used.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 8 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Disruptive Behavior primary diagnosis

Exclusion criteria

• IQ < 80
• ASD diagnosis
• ongoing other interventions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness-based program

Experimental group

Description:

Children and parents receive the program

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness-based program

Waiting-list

No Intervention group

Description:

Children and parents receive no-interventions.