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This pilot randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the feasibility (in terms of rates of recruitment, retention, and attendance), acceptability, and potential effects of the dyadic video-assisted gamified music breathing therapy on dyads' resilience, children's emotional and behavioral symptoms, parents' parenting stress, and psychological distress.
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity that impact various aspects of both the child's and the caregiver's functioning. Evidence shows that cultivating resilience helps children with ADHD manage emotional dysregulation and improve caregivers' psychological well-being. Music breathing therapy - an adaptation of the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) - has shown beneficial effects in enhancing resilience and alleviating psychological distress among different populations. However, it remains unclear whether it is a feasible and effective intervention to enhance the resilience of Chinese school-aged children with ADHD and their caregivers.
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Hypotheses:
It is hypothesized that compared with dyads in the control group, those who receive the dyadic video-assisted gamified music breathing therapy will report the following outcomes: higher levels of dyads' resilience, reduced children's emotional and behavioral symptoms, lower levels of parents' parenting stress and psychological distress at immediately post-intervention (i.e., the 6-week follow-up).
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Dyadic video-assisted gamified group-based music breathing therapy | Experimental | Parent-child dyads in the intervention group will receive video-assisted gamified music breathing therapy comprising 75-minute weekly sessions (first sessions: parents only; reminding 5 sessions: parent-child dyads) delivered face-to-face by a qualified music breathing practitioner with the aid of animations (mainly for sessions involving children) for 6 weeks. The music breathing therapy comprises four breathing phases, namely "Discovery Breathing", "Triangular Breathing", "Silent Breathing", and "Music Breathing". |
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| Online educational modules | Active Comparator | Parent-child dyads in the control group will receive weekly online educational modules via email for 6 weeks. Such information will include definition, etiology, risk factors, signs and symptoms, and therapeutic interventions (pharmacological and nonpharmacological), its complications, and how to manage it. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Dyadic video-assisted gamified group-based music breathing therapy | Behavioral | Dyadic video-assisted gamified music breathing therapy comprising six 75-min weekly sessions delivered in a group size of 6-8 (first sessions: parents only; reminding 5 sessions: parent-child dyads). |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Resilience levels of children | The Chinese version of Resilience Scale for Children-10 (RS10) will be used to assess participants' levels of resilience. This scale consists of 10 items. rated on a 4-point Likert scale (from 1 to 4). A higher total score indicates higher level of resilience. | Change from baseline assessment to immediate post-intervention |
| Resilience levels of parents | The Chinese version of the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale will be used to assess the caregivers' levels of resilience. This scale consists of 25 items, rated on a 5-point Likert scale from 0 (not true at all) to 4 (true nearly all of the time). A higher total score indicates higher level of resilience. | Change from baseline assessment to immediate post-intervention |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Children's emotional and behavioral symptoms | The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire will be used to assess children's emotional and behavioral symptoms in five domains: (1) emotional symptoms, (2) conduct problems, (3) hyperactivity/inattention, (4) peer relationship problems, and (5) prosocial behavior. This scale consists of 25 items, rated on a 3-point Likert scale. A higher total score indicates greater symptom severity for the emotional and behavioral problem domains and greater prosocial behavior for the prosocial behavior domain. |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Children
Parents
Exclusion Criteria:
Children
Parents
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Ankie Tan Cheung, PhD | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
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| Online educational modules | Behavioral | Six weekly educational modules on ADHD and its management via email. |
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| Change from baseline assessment to immediate post-intervention |
| Parenting stress | The Parenting Stress Index-Short Form will be used to assess parenting stress across three domains: (1) parental distress, (2) parent-child dysfunctional interaction, and (3) difficult child behavior. The scale consists of 36 items, rated on a 5-point Likert scale. A higher score indicates higher levels of parenting stress. | Change from baseline assessment to immediate post-intervention |
| Parents' psychological distress (i.e., depression, anxiety and stress) | The Chinese version of the 21-item Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-21) will be used to measure caregivers' mental health states of depression, anxiety and stress over the past week. The scale consists of 21 items, rated on a 4-point Likert scale from 0 (did not apply at all over the last week) to 3 (applied very much or most of the time). A higher score indicates higher levels of depression, anxiety and/or stress. | Change from baseline assessment to immediate post-intervention |
| Feasibility outcomes - recruitment rate | Recruitment rates will be calculated as the number of participants who consented to participate in the study divided by the number of participants who meet the inclusion criteria. | Change from baseline assessment to immediate post-intervention |
| Feasibility outcomes - retention rate | Retention rate will be calculated as the number of participants who have completed the study divided by the number of randomised participants. | Change from baseline assessment to immediate post-intervention |
| Feasibility outcomes - attendance | Attendance rates will be calculated as the number of dyads who have completed the sessions | Change from baseline assessment to immediate post-intervention |
| Acceptability of the intervention - level of satisfaction | Dyads' perceived satisfaction of the intervention will be assessed using an 12-item investigator-designed satisfaction survey, a higher total score indicates a higher level of satisfaction. | Immediate post-intervention |
| Acceptability of the intervention | Semi-structured individual interviews will be used to evaluate the acceptability of the interventuon by exploring dyads' perceptions and experiences of the intervention. | Immediate post-intervention |