Effectiveness Study of a Behavioral Teacher Program Targeting ADHD Symptoms

NCT ID: NCT02518711

Last Updated: 2015-08-10

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

114 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2011-09-30

Study Completion Date

2014-07-31

Brief Summary

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The goal of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a behavioral teacher program addressing symptoms of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the classroom.

Detailed Description

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Background:

Most behavioral teacher programs involve intensive and expensive teacher trainings by health care specialists, which may limit successful large-scale implementation. This behavioral program, on the contrary, involves a self-containing manual that does not require expert training in order to increase the likelihood of successful implementation (if proven effective). The aim was to investigate the program's effects on behavioral, socio-emotional and school functioning in primary school children.

Methods:

Children with ADHD symptoms were randomly assigned at school level to the intervention condition (receiving the program during 18 weeks) or control group (not receiving the program but who were allowed to receive care as usual).

Measures to assess program's effectiveness:

* Strengths and Weaknesses of ADHD-symptoms and Normal Behavior,
* Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
* Social Skills Rating Scale
* Spence Children's Anxiety Scale
* Classroom Observation Code
* Actigraphy
* Sociometric measures (peer nomination and peer rating)
* Dutch arithmetic test (Tempo-Test-Rekenen)
* reading test (Drie-Minuten-Toets) and writing test (PI-dictee).

Additional measures:

* Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Block Design and Vocabulary; used to estimate IQ);
* Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire and several neuropsychological computer tasks

Conditions

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Behavioral teacher program

The behavioral teacher program was used by the participant's teacher in the classroom during 18 weeks.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral Teacher Program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

This program was based on the evidence-based Summer Treatment Program (MTA Cooperative Group, 1999), involving psycho-education for the teacher and universal and individual behavioral techniques that focused on classroom structure and contingency management

Control group

Children within the control group did not receive the behavioral teacher program but were allowed to receive regular care

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Behavioral Teacher Program

This program was based on the evidence-based Summer Treatment Program (MTA Cooperative Group, 1999), involving psycho-education for the teacher and universal and individual behavioral techniques that focused on classroom structure and contingency management

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* sub-threshold or clinical level of ADHD symptoms as observed by participant's teacher through the Dutch version of the Disruptive Behavior Disorders Rating Scale (Pelham, Gnagy, Greenslade, \& Milich, 1992)
* at least one clinical and three sub-threshold ADHD symptoms as measured by the Teacher Telephone Interview (Holmes et al., 2004), a semi-structured interview which is based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2000)

Exclusion Criteria

* (medication) treatment for ADHD at study entry or in preceding 6 months;
* neurological or severe physical condition
* IQ \< 80 based on a short version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Block Design and Vocabulary; Legerstee, van der Reijden-Lakeman, Lechner-van der Noort, \& Ferdinand, 2004; Hrabok, Brooks, Fay-McClymont, \& Sherman, 2014)
* participant enrolled in a daily contingency management program or other teacher program targeting behavior or social problems at study entry or in the preceding month
* Maximum of 2 children per classroom and 5 classrooms per school (in order to limit teachers' burden and increase heterogeneity of teacher and classroom settings)
Minimum Eligible Age

6 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

13 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Nederlandse Stichting voor het Gehandicapte Kind, The Netherlands

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Stichting Weeshuis der Doopsgezinden, The Netherlands

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Stichting Zonnige Jeugd, The Netherlands

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

VU University of Amsterdam

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Betty Veenman

MSc

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Jaap Oosterlaan, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

VU University of Amsterdam

References

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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type BACKGROUND
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A 14-month randomized clinical trial of treatment strategies for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The MTA Cooperative Group. Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1999 Dec;56(12):1073-86. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.56.12.1073.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Pelham WE Jr, Gnagy EM, Greenslade KE, Milich R. Teacher ratings of DSM-III-R symptoms for the disruptive behavior disorders. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1992 Mar;31(2):210-8. doi: 10.1097/00004583-199203000-00006.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 1564021 (View on PubMed)

Holmes J, Lawson D, Langley K, Fitzpatrick H, Trumper A, Pay H, Harrington R, Thapar A. The Child Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Teacher Telephone Interview (CHATTI): reliability and validity. Br J Psychiatry. 2004 Jan;184:74-8. doi: 10.1192/bjp.184.1.74.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
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Reference Type BACKGROUND

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Merrell KW, Popinga MR. The alliance of adaptive behavior and social competence: an examination of relationship between the scales of Independent Behavior and the Social Skills Rating System. Res Dev Disabil. 1994 Jan-Feb;15(1):39-47. doi: 10.1016/0891-4222(94)90037-x.

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Reference Type BACKGROUND

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Reference Type BACKGROUND

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Reference Type BACKGROUND

Verhoeven L. Drie Minuten Toets Handleiding.[Three Minutes Test Manual]. Arnhem, The Netherlands: CITO. 1995.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Geelhoed J, Reitsma P. PI-dictee. Handleiding. Lisse: PI Research Duivendrecht, Swets & Zeitlinger B.V.; 2000.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Veenman B, Luman M, Oosterlaan J. Moderators Influencing the Effectiveness of a Behavioral Teacher Program. Front Psychol. 2018 Mar 13;9:298. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00298. eCollection 2018.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 29593604 (View on PubMed)

Veenman B, Luman M, Oosterlaan J. Further Insight into the Effectiveness of a Behavioral Teacher Program Targeting ADHD Symptoms Using Actigraphy, Classroom Observations and Peer Ratings. Front Psychol. 2017 Jul 11;8:1157. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01157. eCollection 2017.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 28744244 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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5930790

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

20110028

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

METc VUmc 2011/196

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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