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Trial reportJournal of abnormal child psychology2017

Parenting as a Mechanism of Change in Psychosocial Treatment for Youth with ADHD, Predominantly Inattentive Presentation.

Lauren M Haack, Miguel Villodas, Keith McBurnett, Stephen Hinshaw, Linda J Pfiffner

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of abnormal child psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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28citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Comorbid ADHD and Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease: Prevalence and Risk Factors.Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2025
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  19. Mediators of psychosocial treatment for adolescent ADHD.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lauren M HaackDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Ave., Box 0984, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.
Miguel VillodasDepartment of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
Keith McBurnettDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Ave., Box 0984, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.
Stephen HinshawDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Linda J PfiffnerDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Ave., Box 0984, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA. linda.pfiffner@ucsf.edu.
University of California, San Francisco · USFlorida International University · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

CLINICAL SERVICES RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAMT32MH018261 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Kaja Zabrina LeWinn, Rachel L. Loewy · 1985 to 2026
$7.0M
Integrated Multi-Setting Psychosocial Treatment for ADHD-Inattentive TypeR01MH077671 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI HINSHAW, STEPHEN, PFIFFNER, LINDA · 2008 to 2012
$3.7M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH077671NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH018261
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigated whether parenting and child behavior improve following psychosocial treatment for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Predominantly Inattentive Presentation (ADHD-I) and whether parenting improvements mediate child outcomes. We analyzed data from a randomized clinical trial investigating the efficacy of a multicomponent psychosocial intervention (Child Life and Attention Skills, CLAS, n = 74) in comparison to Parent-Focused Treatment (PFT, n = 74) and treatment as usual (TAU, n = 51) for youth with ADHD-I (average child age = 8.6 years, range 7-11 years, 58 % boys). Child and parent/family functioning were assessed prior to treatment, immediately following treatment, and at follow-up into the subsequent school year using parent and teacher reports of inattention, organization, social skills, academic competency (teachers only), parenting daily hassles, and positive and negative parenting behaviors (parents only). Both treatment groups improved on negative parenting and home impairment, but only CLAS families also improved on positive parenting as well as academic impairment. Improvements in positive and negative parenting mediated treatment effects on child impairment independent of improvements in child inattention, implicating parenting as an important mechanism of change in psychosocial treatment for ADHD-I. Further, whereas parent-focused training produces improvements in negative parenting and impairment at home for children with ADHD-I, a multicomponent approach (incorporating child skills training and teacher consultation) more consistently produces improvements at school and in positive parenting, which may contribute to improvements in social skills into the next school year.

Indexed as

Outcome Assessment, Health CareAttention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivityBehavior TherapyChildChild BehaviorFamily TherapyFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansMaleParentingADHD-inattentive presentationBehavioral interventionMediationParentingTreatment mechanisms

Identifiers

PMID27628742
PMCPMC5352559
OpenAlexW2519021478

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