Effectiveness of Barkley’s parental training on self-control of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

The present study was conducted aiming to investigate the effectiveness of Barkley’s parental training on self-control of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

The research method was an experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the present study included parents of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the City of Isfahan in academic year 2016-2017. Clustered random sampling method and random replacement were used in the present study in a way that 40 parents were selected from among parents of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder via clustered random sampling method and were randomly replaced into experiment and control groups. The parents present in the experiment group received fifteen sixty-minute therapeutic intervention sessions during two months. The questionnaires utilized included Conners ADHD Questionnaire (1997) and Kendal and Wilcox Self-Control Questionnaire (1979). The data from the study were analyzed using ANCOVA via SPSS23 software.

The results showed that Barkley’s parental training has had significant effect on self-control of children with ADHD (p<0/001) in a way that this therapy was able to improve self-control in ADHD children.

According to the findings of the present study, it can be concluded that Barkley’s parental training can be applied as an efficient treatment to improve self-control of ADHD children through modifying parents’ interactional and parental model of ADHD children.