Psychiatric Assessment Of Parents Of Children With ADHD

Assiut University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03175185

17100221

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to carry out a psychological evaluation for the parents of children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and parents of children without ADHD as control to detect any psychological problems in those of children with ADHD . These problems may be a precipitating factor to cause ADHD in their child or have a genetic predisposition to be passed to their children. On the other hand these psychological problems may be caused by the difficulties they encounter in raising their ADHD child. The exact relation needs more researches and to be more investigated.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parents of children diagnosed with ADHD according to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V).
• Children are between 4 and 16 years of age for both sexes.
• Children with normal IQ > 70%.
• Parents are able to give informed consent and able to complete the research assessments.

Exclusion criteria

• Parents having chronic debilitating diseases e.g. chronic liver cirrhosis.
• Parents were participating in other clinical research.
• Refusal to participate.

Trial design

200 participants in 2 patient groups

Parents of children with ADHD

Description:

100 parents of 50 children who were diagnosed with ADHD and

Parent of children without ADHD

Description:

100 parents of 50 children who are ADHD free as a control group