Telephone‐assisted self‐help for parents of children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder who have residual functional impairment despite methylphenidate treatment: a randomized controlled trial

Abstract

The TASH program enhances effects of methylphenidate treatment in families who complete the intervention. The discontinuation rate of about 30% and comparison between completing and discontinuing families suggest that the program may be more suitable for families with a higher educational level and fewer additional stresses.

Individualised stepwise adaptive treatment for 3–6-year-old preschool children impaired by attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ESCApreschool): study protocol of an adaptive intervention study including two randomised controlled trials within the consortium ESCAlife

“…Parent TASH programmes similar to that used in the present study have already been shown to reduce behaviour problems in preschool-and school-age children (e.g. [30,[32][33][34]). For the current study, the parent booklets were revised and adapted to address the specific needs of families of preschool children.…”

“…An effectiveness study on a TASH intervention for parents of 6-12-yearold children with ADHD found a significant reduction of ADHD and comorbid symptoms under routine care conditions [32]. Moreover, TASH for parents was found to enhance effects of methylphenidate treatment in a sample of children with ADHD [33]. Interestingly, behavioural and non-behavioural TASH interventions seem to have similar effects [34].…”

Efficacy of web-assisted self-help for parents of children with ADHD (WASH) – a three-arm randomized trial under field/routine care conditions in Germany

“…In online-based self-help studies [15,16], effect sizes are in the lower to medium range (mostly 0.30 ≤ d ≤ 0.70). Telephone-assisted self-help for parents on the basis of booklets has been found to have moderate effects (0.33 ≤ d ≤ 0.59) [10]. For a comparison of two active conditions (WASH vs. WASH+SUPPORT), rather low to most moderate effects are expected (d = 0.30).…”

“…Media-applied PMT may help to overcome this structural lack of therapeutic supply as well as the structural barriers to attending and continuing face-to-face parent training, such as time and work commitments [9]. Telephone-assisted self-help interventions have been found to address some of these barriers and, furthermore, to be effective in the treatment of externalizing behavior problems [10,11] and to be superior to treatment as usual [12]. Although studies have evaluated internet-based treatments for patients with different disorders [13], research on internet-based self-help for caregivers of children with ADHD is rare.…”

“…Comparable effects between self-help programs based on self-help books and internet-based self-help programs were found, for example, in Australia [15] and Germany [17][18][19]. Moreover, self-help was found to enhance the effect of pharmacotherapy in a group of children with ADHD [10]. Recently, Ghaderi et al [20] found webbased PMT to be as effective as face-to face PMT in children with ODD/CD (including ADHD).…”