A sample of 60 children is randomly assigned to an intervention and a control condition. The intervention group receives 15 sessions of child-focused treatment with play training to enhance play persistence and intensity. The control group receives the same amount of placebo play sessions. The intervention group receives subsequently 15 sessions of parent training. All children are 3 to 6 years old and meet diagnostic criteria for ADD or ADHD. Main hypothesis are a stronger reduction of ADHD symptoms of the child in different settings in the intervention than in the control group. Play-persistence and -intensity should also increase more in the intervention group. An additional effect of a subsequent parent training shall furthermore be tested.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
60
playtraining is a play based intervention that includes techniques of behavioral management as: structuring of play situation, detailled play planning, definition of behavioral tasks, positive reinforcement, token economy. The intervention is designed to enhance play-persistence and -intensity and thereby reduce ADHD symptoms
University of Cologne, clinic, department for child and adolescent psychtherapy and psychiatry
Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfahlen, Germany
RECRUITINGFBB-ADHD-V
Symptom checklist, rated by parents and preschool teachers. Standardized quesionnaire based on the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for ADHD. Specific form for preschoolers with norms from the year 2009
Time frame: 20 minutes
VBV-EL SUBSCALE play productivity and play-intensity
questionnaire for preschoolers VBV-EL (=parent version) VBV-ER (=preschool teacher version)focussing items that cover play behavior and restless/ hyperactive behavior
Time frame: 10 minutes
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