Investigating the effectiveness of an intervention program based on the Pender model to promote treatment adherence behavior in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder

Determining the effectiveness of an educational-interventional program based on the Pender model to improve treatment compliance behavior in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder

This experimental study has a control group, with randomized parallel groups, phase 1 on 94 parents, Excel software will be used for randomization.

In this way, after obtaining the necessary permits from the university officials, first a list of psychological treatment centers for patients with autism spectrum disorders in Hamedan city is prepared and then 2 centers are randomly selected and then the samples will be selected randomly among the parents of children who refer to these centers, test and control.

The inclusion criteria for the study also included residing in the city of Hamedan; willingness to participate in the study (completing a consent form, interviewing, completing a questionnaire), and having a file at the aforementioned center.The exclusion criteria for parents who are not able to respond and participate in the study or are under psychological counseling elsewhere, parents who have mental illnesses; Depression and the use of anti-stress and anxiety medications

The educational intervention included attractive and innovative educational content for parents with autistic children, which included educational clips and animations with VideoScribe, posters, pamphlets, lectures and educational PowerPoints, and educational booklets.

Pender's model constracts includes perceived benefits, perceived barriers, behavioral emotions, interpersonal influencers, situational influencers, commitment to program implementation, treatment compliance behavior.

In this study , the random allocation of parents to intervention and control groups using random block method will be conducted to achieve this goal , four sheets of paper will be prepared - two cards called intervention and two cards called control .these sheets of paper are placed in a container .parents will be selected at one time without being replaced , and for each patient, a paper sheet will be randomly drawn from the container. After each draw, the paper sheets will be returned to the container, and the process will be repeated until the desired sample size is reached.