Comparing the Effectiveness of Mindfulness Group Learning,Cognitive Behavioral Learning, and Blended Learning in Motherson the Executive Functions and Emotion Regulation of Childrenwith Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD)

The present research aimed at comparing the effectiveness of mindfulness group learning, cognitive behavioral learning, and blended learning in mothers on the executive functions and emotion regulation of children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder in the city of Kerman, Iran. This is a pre-test/ post-test, and post-hoc test, quasi-experiment study with three experimental and control groups. The statistical population included all first-grade to third-grade male elementary school students with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder in the city of Kerman. The sample size included 60 subjects (15 subjects in the mindfulness learning group, 15 subjects in the cognitive-behavioral learning group, 15 subjects in the blended learning group, and 15 subjects in the control group) that were selected through convenience sampling. The children’s mothers were trained. The research tools included the 20-item emotion regulation questionnaire by Hoffman et al. (2016) and the 63-item inventory of executive functions by Gioia (2000). The data was analyzed using the tests of multivariable analysis of variance and covariance analysis with repeated measures. The results indicated that there is a significant difference between the emotion regulation of children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and the mean scores of three stages of pre-test, post-test, and the post-hoc test of executive variables. In accordance with the results of the post-hoc test of the blended learning method had a significant impact on the executive functions in comparison to two mindfulness and the cognitive-behavioral learning method, and emotion regulation had a significant impact in comparison to mindfulness learning.