NCT03220308

Mindfulness Training for Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Mindful Parenting

Mindfulness Training for Children With ADHD and Mindful Parenting

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 103 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karakter Kinder- en Jeugdpsychiatrie · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the effectiveness of an 8-week mindfulness group training for children (8-16 years old) with ADHD in combination with a parallel mindful parenting training for their parents. Half of the participants will be randomly assigned to the mindfulness training in addition to care-as-usual (CAU); the other half to CAU-only. The hypothesis is that compared to care-as-usual only, the addition of the mindfulness training will improve self-control of youth with ADHD.

Conditions

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	MYmind mindfulness training	The MYmind mindfulness training uses a standardised protocol based on mindfulness-based cognitive therapy. It consists of 8 weekly group sessions of 90 minutes for youth with ADHD, and parallel mindful parenting training for the parents. Eight weeks after the last session there is a single 90 minutes booster session.
OTHER	Care-as-usual for children (8-16 years old) with ADHD	According to the Dutch Multidisciplinary guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD, care-as-usual for children aged 8-16 years with ADHD consists of psycho-education and the prescription of medication approved for ADHD and/or evidence-based parent and/or teacher-administered behaviour therapy, preferably both medication and behaviour therapy. First-line option for medication is a psychostimulant, second-line option is atomoxetine, and third-line options are alpha-2 presynaptic agonists or tricyclic antidepressants (imipramine).

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-02-18
• Primary completion: 2018-07-26
• Completion: 2019-02-22
• First posted: 2017-07-18
• Last updated: 2019-03-07

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Netherlands