“Eat, pray, love. Ritalin”: A qualitative investigation into the perceived barriers and enablers to parents of children with ADHD undertaking a mindful parenting intervention

Co-designed Mindful Parenting for Parents of Children with ADHD: A Pilot and Feasibility Study

“…Parents discussed the benefits of the timing of the retreats, and the retreat facilitators understanding their needs. The co-design process used to develop PTM may have contributed to parents' high level of program satisfaction, as parents involved in the co-design advocated for face-to-face sessions, the mixed-mode of delivery, and facilitators who understood the needs of parents of children with ADHD [34].…”

“…Despite the increasing use of technology to improve access to mental healthcare [57], parents described the value of the face-to-face retreats, providing an opportunity to reflect and learn without other distractions, and to connect with other parents of children with ADHD. As reported by parents and healthcare providers during the co-design of PTM, parent ADHD may act as a barrier to parent engagement in MP [34]. Consequently, the face-to-face retreats appear important for parents who may struggle to complete their self-directed home practice due to their own challenges with attention [7], and their high levels of stress [4,5].The social connection provided by the face-to-face retreats also appears essential, given parents commonly report feelings of social isolation due to their children's ADHD [58,59].…”

“…PTM is a parent-only MP intervention that was co-designed and developed in partnership with parents of children with ADHD and healthcare practitioners who work with families with children with ADHD (psychologists, general practitioners and paediatricians). The co-design process used to develop PTM has been described previously [34]. The codesign included focus groups with 13 parents of children with ADHD to: (a) Understand parents' needs for an intervention, (b) Identify parents' perceived barriers and enablers to undertaking a MP intervention and (c) Ask parents to provide feedback on the skeleton curriculum of existing MP interventions.…”

“…The present study builds on our previous research to codesign and develop a MP intervention to meet the needs of parents of children with ADHD. The intervention, Parents that Mind (PTM), is a 5-week program with two face-to-face group retreat sessions, that was co-designed and developed by the research team in partnership with parents of children with ADHD and healthcare practitioners who work with families with children with ADHD (psychologists, general practitioners and paediatricians) [34]. The primary aim of the present study is to pilot PTM to examine the feasibility and acceptability of this co-designed MP intervention for parents of children with ADHD.…”

Mindful Parenting pada Orangtua dengan Anak Gangguan Pemusatan Perhatian dan Hiperaktivitas (GPPH): Tinjauan Sistematis

“…Hal ini dikarenakan stress pengasuhan dianggap lebih tinggi terjadi pada orangtua dengan anak berkebutuhan khusus, salah satunya adalah anak dengan ADHD (Gupta, 2007). Berdasarkan ulasan keenam artikel di atas, terbukti bahwa mindful parenting berhasil mengatasi permasalahan stress pengasuhan pada orangtua, hal ini dipicu karena adanya kemauan dan kemampuan orangtua untuk ikut serta dalam pelatihan tersebut (Ruuskanen et al, 2019). Ketika orangtua berhasil mengatasi stress pengasuhan yang terjadi pada dirinya dan menerapkan mindful parenting pada anak, orangtua akan lebih mudah untuk berfokus untuk menangani dan mendidik sesuai dengan yang dibutuhkan oleh anak.…”