Impact of Parental Emotion Regulation on the Treatment of ADHD

ConditionADHD
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age5-12
SponsorMilton S. Hershey Medical Center

About this trial

Aim: To examine if parental emotion regulation (ER) moderates the response to parent training interventions.

H1: Reduced parental ER capacity will predict diminished efficacy for behavioral parent training to improve negative parenting behavior (NPB) and behavior problems in offspring with ADHD.

H2: Increased parental emotional reactivity will predict diminished efficacy for behavioral parent training to improve negative parenting behavior (NPB) and behavior problems in offspring with ADHD.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Parent of a child ages 5-12 with ADHD

Parent must report that the child has at least a mild level of symptoms at home of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) on the Disruptive Behavior Disorder Rating Scale (DBDRS)

Disqualifiers

Not being the parent of a child ages 5-12 who meets diagnostic criteria for ADHD.

Non English Speaking

the child with ADHD has a diagnosis of intellectual delay or has prominent autistic traits

Another child in the same family participating in this study already

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Behavioral Parenting Intervention

Treatment groups

65 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group