Treatment Compliance and Parents' Characteristics in Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder : Pilot Study.
10.4306/jknpa.2012.51.4.225
- Author:
Joon KIM
1
;
Hyun Kook LIM
;
Jong Hyun JEONG
;
Seung Chul HONG
;
Jin Hee HAN
;
Sung Pil LEE
;
Ho Jun SEO
Author Information
1. Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Suwon, Korea. healm@catholic.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
ADHD;
Treatment compliance;
Parents
- MeSH:
Child;
Compliance;
Humans;
Hypochondriasis;
Mental Competency;
MMPI;
Parenting;
Parents;
Patient Dropouts;
Personality Inventory;
Pilot Projects;
Surveys and Questionnaires;
Rejection (Psychology)
- From:Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
2012;51(4):225-232
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to compare characteristics of parents of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) children in relationship to treatment compliance. METHODS: A total of 271 school-aged children diagnosed with ADHD were devided into two groups by treatment duration; early dropout group (n=117, treatments discontinued within three months) and continuous treatment groups (n=154, treatments continued for more than three months). Scores on the Korean Personality Inventory for Children (KPI-C), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Korean Parenting Sense of Competence (K-PSOC), Korean Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (K-PSI-SF), and Parental Acceptance Rejection Questionnaire (PARQ) were compared between two groups. RESULTS: According to the results of the KPI-C, parents of the early dropout group showed a higher tendency to regard their children's symptoms as 'somatization' and 'delinquency', compared with those of continuous treatment groups (49.9 vs. 46.3 and 60.9 vs. 58.2, p=0.048 and 0.046, respectively). Parents in the early dropout group showed higher scores on hypochondriasis and psychasthenia subscales in MMPI (54.7 vs. 52.1 and 51.5 vs. 48.5, p=0.024, and 0.017, respectively). The results of the K-PSOC showed that parents in the early dropout group perceived a lower sense of parenting competence (27.3 vs. 58.6, p=0.047). CONCLUSION: Our findings suggested that characteristics of the parents and their perspectives regarding children's symptoms could be possible factors associated with treatment compliance in ADHD. Further researches on this issue may provide opportunities to improve treatment compliance for children with ADHD.
