Applying the Mindful Parenting Program Among Chinese Parents of Children with ADHD: A Randomized Control Trial

Liu, Pei; Qiu, Sunwei; Lo, Herman Hay Ming; Song, Xiaolan; Qian, Qiujin

doi:10.1007/s12671-021-01616-6

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“…The finding that the MPI was associated with medium effect size increases in mindful parenting is consistent with those found previously amongst samples of parents of young children with other clinical presentations including autism [ 45 ] and ADHD [ 69 , 70 ]. This MPI appears effective, in terms of increasing mindful parenting for parents of young children with clinical anxiety and may offer strategies that assist them to cope with the caregiving experience.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…This preliminary research adds to previous evidence supporting MPI’s effectiveness in reducing parental stress and burden in parents of clinical child populations [ 70 ]; and extends it into the realm of clinical child anxiety. Mindful parenting practices may offer strategies to assist parents to cope with their own emotions, respond to their own needs, enhancing their caregiving experience.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 53%

“…Specifically, there was a small non-significant effect for overall parenting stress and burden, and a medium significant effect in the parenting stress domains of (1) parent-child dysfunctional interaction (i.e., decreased parental dissatisfaction with the parent-child relationship and an increased sense that the child is acceptable) and a medium non-significant effect for (2) difficult child (i.e., decreased sense that the child is difficult to parent and unable to regulate their own emotions). This preliminary research adds to previous evidence supporting MPI's effectiveness in reducing parental stress and burden in parents of clinical child populations [70]; and extends it into the realm of clinical child anxiety. Mindful parenting practices may offer strategies to assist parents to cope with their own emotions, respond to their own needs, enhancing their caregiving experience.…”

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confidence: 56%

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Mindful Parenting Group Intervention for Parents of Children with Anxiety Disorders

Farley

Diaz

Emerson

et al. 2023

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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Parenting behaviour and rearing style contribute to the intergenerational relationship between parental and child anxiety. Current psychological interventions for child anxiety typically do not adequately address parental mental health, parenting behaviours or the parent–child relationship. The current pilot study examines the effectiveness of a mindful parenting intervention (MPI) for parents of young children with clinical anxiety. It was hypothesised that the intervention would be associated with improvements in parental stress, mental health, and mindfulness, and a reduction in child clinical anxiety symptoms. Twenty-one parents of children aged 3–7 years diagnosed with anxiety disorders participated in an 8-week group MPI program that aimed to increase their intentional moment to moment awareness of the parent–child relationship. Parental (anxiety, depression, hostility, stress, burden, mindfulness, mindful parenting) and child (anxiety diagnoses, anxiety severity, comorbidities) outcomes were assessed at pre- and post-intervention, and at 3-month follow-up. Parents reported a significant increase in mindful parenting and a significant reduction in parent–child dysfunctional interaction, but no change in mental health symptoms. There was a significant reduction in parent-rated child anxiety symptoms, severity of child anxiety diagnosis and number of comorbid diagnoses at post and 3-month follow-up. Limitations include a lack of waitlist control, small sample size, and participants were largely mothers, from intact families and highly educated. There was attrition of 43% and outcomes were predominantly self-report. MPIs offer a novel and potentially effective method of increasing mindful parenting, decreasing dysfunctional parent–child interactions, reducing parenting stress and might also be an effective early intervention for indirectly decreasing young children’s clinical anxiety symptoms. Larger-scale controlled trials of MPIs are needed.

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confidence: 89%

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confidence: 56%

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Mindful Parenting Group Intervention for Parents of Children with Anxiety Disorders

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Diaz

Emerson

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Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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“…The most common design was the RCT, which was used in 14 studies [84,85,88,[91][92][93][94][95][96][97][98][99][100][101][102]. nRCTs were used in four studies [86,90,103,105].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hereafter, to distinguish these we will refer to adult and child studies, where the latter refers to children and adolescents as many studies combined these age groups (see ages detailed in Table 1). Two parent studies were included where the intervention was designed for the parents of children with ADHD [85,96]. However, typically, studies involving parents also involved interventions for children and are therefore referred to as family studies [90,97,100,[103][104][105].…”

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confidence: 99%

Mindfulness Interventions for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Kretschmer

Tebrizcik

Dommett

2022

Psychiatry International

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental condition impacting children and adults. Current treatments are limited and there is increasing interest in the use of mindfulness, which is growing in popularity. Previous systematic reviews have typically focused on specific ages, outcome measures or interventions. The current review aimed to take a more comprehensive approach. Title and abstract searches were performed in five databases for randomized and non-randomized controlled trials or pre-post studies with participants with an ADHD diagnosis or a score above a clinically relevant cut-off on a validated ADHD measure. Studies had to measure symptoms of ADHD, global or social functioning. Extraction of key information including participant status (i.e., diagnosis, scale scores, comorbidities, medication use), study design, and outcome measures was conducted. Effect sizes (Hedge’s g) were calculated and where a measure had been used in at least three studies with the same population, meta-analyses were considered. Twenty-nine studies were initially identified, with seven deemed poor quality and removed from further analysis leaving, 22 studies containing data from 1237 children and adults with ADHD along with data from 525 family members. The data indicate possible benefits of mindfulness on self-compassion, quality of life, wellbeing, depression, and anxiety. The findings also suggest that mindfulness may also improve ADHD symptoms, executive function, problematic behaviours, and emotional dysregulation, although results vary by age of patient and measures used. Parent stress and parenting style have received limited attention, highlighting the need for more studies in these areas. Whilst the data presented suggest that mindfulness may be beneficial, the evidence base is not as strong as the popularity of the approach. Many of the studies lacked blind assessment, adequate randomization, or suitable control conditions. As such high-quality controlled studies considering medication, other psychosocial interventions, use of active and in active controls and comorbidity as well as longer follow-up periods, are needed to confirm this.

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Mindfulness-enhanced parenting programmes for improving the psychosocial outcomes of children (0 to 18 years) and their parents

Featherston,

Barlow,

Song

et al. 2024

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

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Applying the Mindful Parenting Program Among Chinese Parents of Children with ADHD: A Randomized Control Trial

Cited by 14 publications

References 60 publications

Mindful Parenting Group Intervention for Parents of Children with Anxiety Disorders

Mindful Parenting Group Intervention for Parents of Children with Anxiety Disorders

Mindfulness Interventions for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Mindfulness-enhanced parenting programmes for improving the psychosocial outcomes of children (0 to 18 years) and their parents

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