The Effectiveness of Teaching of Mindfulness Skills on Inattention and Hyperactivity in 13 to 16 years old Hyperactive Students

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of teaching mindfulness skills to hyperactivity and inattention symptoms were done in hyperactive students. The method of this study was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design and a control group. The statistical population of this study was all students of the first high school of Ardebil in the academic year 1397-1398. Using the purposive sampling method, among the five education areas of Ardabil city, area number one and among of 8 high schools in that area, 2 high schools were selected, and then 36 students with hyperactive symptoms were selected and were randomly assigned to two groups of 18 experiments and controls. For collecting data, the Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder Rating Scale-IV (Swanson, Nolan & Pelham, 2001)  was used. Data were analyzed by covariance analysis. The results showed that the variables of inattention (F=24.441) and hyperactivity (F=74.195) at the alpha level of 0.05 had a significant difference between the experimental and control groups and indicating that the training of mindfulness skills has an effect on reducing inattention and hyperactivity symptoms. These results state that the training of mindfulness skills can help with the proper techniques to attention in all moments of life and reduce the inattention and hyperactivity symptoms of hyperactive students.