The Efficacy of Parent Management Training on Depression and Anxiety in ADHD Children's Mothers

This study examined the efficacy of the Management Behavioral Training on the levels of depression, anxiety in the mothers of ADHD children. Depression and anxiety were examined as the main variables.

In this clinical trial study, Twenty mothers (10 in each experimental and control group) who had at least one child with clinically diagnosed ADHD and aged between 6 to 12 years old were recruited from the consecutive referrals to the child and adolescent psychiatric clinic of Gil and baby clinic, Rasht, Iran. The mothers in two groups were matched in some demographic variables. Mothers in both groups completed two scales: Beck depression inventory and Cattle anxiety scale to assess their depression and anxiety as a pre test and post test assessment. Subjects in experimental group participated in nine subsequent management behavioral training workshop sessions. The discrepancies of pre and post intervention were compared between two groups by SPSS software using repeated measure ANOVA statistical method.

Intervention group had significant improvement on measures of depression and anxiety in Beck depression inventory, Cattle anxiety scale in comparison with the control group (P<0.001).

According to the findings of this study, implication of Management Behavioral Training is recommended to reduce depression and anxiety of mothers of ADHD children.