Mindfulness Training for Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Mindful Parenting (MindChamp)

Karakter Kinder- en Jeugdpsychiatrie

Status: Completed

Conditions: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Treatments: Other: Care-as-usual for children (8-16 years old) with ADHD; Other: MYmind mindfulness training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03220308

20016 MIND

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effectiveness of an 8-week mindfulness group training for children (8-16 years old) with ADHD in combination with a parallel mindful parenting training for their parents. Half of the participants will be randomly assigned to the mindfulness training in addition to care-as-usual (CAU); the other half to CAU-only.

The hypothesis is that compared to care-as-usual only, the addition of the mindfulness training will improve self-control of youth with ADHD.

Enrollment: 103 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 to 16 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Child has a clinical diagnosis of ADHD according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; DSM-IV or DSM-5 system, and confirmed by a structured interview (The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for school-Age Children (K-SADS)).
• Child receives CAU and has remaining ADHD-symptoms (average score > 1.0 on the investigator-rated DSM-5 items from the Conners' ADHD rating scale).
• Child is between 8 and 16 years old.
• At least one parent is willing to participate.
• ADHD medication dose is stable, or there is an informed decision on not taking ADHD medication.
• Psychiatric comorbidities are allowed except psychosis, bipolar illness, active suicidality, untreated posttraumatic stress disorder or substance use, provided ADHD is the primary diagnosis in the child; similarly, psychopathology in the parents is allowed except psychosis, bipolar disorder, active suicidality, untreated posttraumatic stress disorder or substance use.
• Child and parent have an estimated intelligence quotient (IQ) ≥ 80.
• Child and parent have adequate mastery of Dutch language.

Exclusion criteria

• Child or the participating parent(s) have participated in a mindfulness programme in the past year or ever in a Mindful Parenting training.
• Child or parent is participating in another intervention study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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103 participants in 2 patient groups

Care-as-usual (CAU) only

Other group

Description:

Care-as-usual for children (8-16 years old) with ADHD

Treatment:

Other: Care-as-usual for children (8-16 years old) with ADHD

Mindfulness for child and parent + CAU

Experimental group

Description:

MYmind mindfulness training in addition to care-as-usual for children aged 8-16 years with ADHD

Treatment:

Other: MYmind mindfulness training

Other: Care-as-usual for children (8-16 years old) with ADHD