NCT06365346

Music Breathing Therapy for Children With Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Their Caregivers

Dyadic Video-assisted Gamified Group-based Music Breathing Therapy on Enhancing Resilience Among Children With Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Their Caregivers: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chinese University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This pilot randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the feasibility (in terms of rates of recruitment, retention, and attendance), acceptability, and potential effects of the dyadic video-assisted gamified music breathing therapy on dyads' resilience, children's emotional and behavioral symptoms, parents' parenting stress, and psychological distress.

Detailed description

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity that impact various aspects of both the child's and the caregiver's functioning. Evidence shows that cultivating resilience helps children with ADHD manage emotional dysregulation and improve caregivers' psychological well-being. Music breathing therapy - an adaptation of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) - has shown beneficial effects in enhancing resilience and alleviating psychological distress among different populations. However, it remains unclear whether it is a feasible and effective intervention to enhance the resilience of Chinese school-aged children with ADHD and their caregivers. Aims: * To determine the feasibility (in terms of rates of recruitment, retention, and attendance), and acceptability of the intervention * To examine the effects of the dyadic video-assisted gamified music breathing therapy on dyads' resilience, children's emotional and behavioral symptoms, parents' parenting stress, and psychological distress. Hypotheses: It is hypothesized that compared with dyads in the control group, those who receive the dyadic video-assisted gamified music breathing therapy will report the following outcomes: higher levels of dyads' resilience, reduced children's emotional and behavioral symptoms, lower levels of parents' parenting stress and psychological distress at immediately post-intervention (i.e., the 6-week follow-up).

Conditions

• Resilience

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Dyadic video-assisted gamified group-based music breathing therapy	Dyadic video-assisted gamified music breathing therapy comprising six 75-min weekly sessions delivered in a group size of 6-8 (first sessions: parents only; reminding 5 sessions: parent-child dyads).
BEHAVIORAL	Online educational modules	Six weekly educational modules on ADHD and its management via email.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-15
• Primary completion: 2024-12-20
• Completion: 2024-12-20
• First posted: 2024-04-15
• Last updated: 2025-09-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong