Comparison the Effectiveness of Child Mindfulness Therapy, Mindful Parenting and Combination Therapy of These Two Interventions in Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder: A Outcome-Based Study

The main objective was to compare the effectiveness of child mindfulness therapy, mindful parenting, and combination therapy of these two interventions on the primary and secondary outcomes of ADHD in children with this disorder and their parents.

The present study includes three treatment groups. Subjects are assigned to groups using the simple random . The sample size of each group is 20. This is a clinical trial with parallel and randomized groups, which will be performed on 60 subjects.

The intervention of groups 1, 2, and 3 will be held twice a week in a counseling center.Participants come to the center two days a week, at different times to attend meetings.The intervention will be performed by people trained in the field of mindfulness. In the first and last session, questionnaires are completed.

Participants consisted of children aged 6 to12 years with ADHD and their parents in Mashhad. Inclusion criteria included the diagnosis of ADHD and being in the age range of 6 to12 years. Exclusion criteria included suffering from other mental disorders.

Group 1 consists of children with ADHD who receive mindfulness intervention that consists of eight sessions and each session lasts for 45 minutes.The content of the sessions includes mindfulness of the environment, objects, self and body, and breathing meditation.Content includes formal and daily mindfulness exercises. Group 2 includes parents of affected children who receive mindful parenting intervention.This course consists of eight 45-minute sessions.Content includes automatic and mindful parenting, stress response, compassion meditation.Group 3 is a combination of intervention 1 for children and intervention 2 for their parents that consists of 16 sessions and lasts two months.

core symptoms of ADHD; executive function

Mashhad Education Department includes 10 districts.The name of each district is recorded on a piece of paper.The pieces of paper are then thrown in a bag.The researcher will put his/her hand in the bag and take out a piece of paper to randomly select the education district.Once the education district has been identified, a list of the district's primary schools will be obtained from the Department of Education, and 10 schools will be selected through a process similar to how the district is selected.Using the SNAP questionnaire, the screening will be done to identify students with suspected ADHD.After screening and conducting a clinical interview, the names of students receiving a definitive diagnosis of ADHD will be written separately on a piece of paper.The names are then poured into a bag.Each time the researcher puts his or her hand in the bag and pulls out a piece of paper.The first 20 people who get out of the bag in this way will be placed in group one, the next 20 people in group two, and the third 20 people in group three.In the next step, the names of the groups will be written separately on three pieces of paper and thrown into the bag.The first piece of paper to come out of the bag after the researcher's hand is inserted into the bag will be group one, the second piece of paper will be group two, and the third piece of paper will be group three.