TY - JOUR
T1 - A small-scale randomized controlled trial of the revised new forest parenting programme for preschoolers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
AU - Thompson, Margaret J J
AU - Laver-Bradbury, Cathy
AU - Ayres, Michelle
AU - Le Poidevin, Emma
AU - Mead, Sarah
AU - Dodds, Catherine
AU - Psychogiou, Lamprini
AU - Bitsakou, Paraskevi
AU - Daley, David
AU - Weeks, Anne
AU - Brotman, Laurie Miller
AU - Abikoff, Howard
AU - Thompson, Penny
AU - Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J S
N1 - Funding Information:
The project was funded by The Island of Guernsey Research Fund through Wessex Medical Trust HOPE to MT, ES-B, LP, PT. We would like to thank the health visitors and other health staff on the Island of Guernsey for supporting our project and the help we were given from the press of Guernsey for promoting the project. Lastly we would like to thank all the families who took part.
PY - 2009/10
Y1 - 2009/10
N2 - The revised new forest parenting programme (NFPP) is an 8-week psychological intervention designed to treat ADHD in preschool children by targeting, amongst other things, both underlying impairments in self-regulation and the quality of mother-child interactions. Forty-one children were randomized to either the revised NFPP or treatment as usual conditions. Outcomes were ADHD and ODD symptoms measured using questionnaires and direct observation, mothers' mental health and the quality of mother-child interactions. Effects of the revised NFPP on ADHD symptoms were large (effect size >1) and significant and effects persisted for 9 weeks post-intervention. Effects on ODD symptoms were less marked. There were no improvements in maternal mental health or parenting behavior during mother-child interaction although there was a drop in mothers' negative and an increase in their positive comments during a 5-min speech sample. The small-scale trial, although limited in power and generalizability, provides support for the efficacy of the revised NFPP. The findings need to be replicated in a larger more diverse sample.
AB - The revised new forest parenting programme (NFPP) is an 8-week psychological intervention designed to treat ADHD in preschool children by targeting, amongst other things, both underlying impairments in self-regulation and the quality of mother-child interactions. Forty-one children were randomized to either the revised NFPP or treatment as usual conditions. Outcomes were ADHD and ODD symptoms measured using questionnaires and direct observation, mothers' mental health and the quality of mother-child interactions. Effects of the revised NFPP on ADHD symptoms were large (effect size >1) and significant and effects persisted for 9 weeks post-intervention. Effects on ODD symptoms were less marked. There were no improvements in maternal mental health or parenting behavior during mother-child interaction although there was a drop in mothers' negative and an increase in their positive comments during a 5-min speech sample. The small-scale trial, although limited in power and generalizability, provides support for the efficacy of the revised NFPP. The findings need to be replicated in a larger more diverse sample.
KW - ADHD
KW - New forest parenting programme
KW - Parent training
KW - Preschool
KW - Psychosocial treatments
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U2 - 10.1007/s00787-009-0020-0
DO - 10.1007/s00787-009-0020-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 19404717
AN - SCOPUS:70349275241
SN - 1018-8827
VL - 18
SP - 605
EP - 616
JO - European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
JF - European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
IS - 10
ER -