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PARENTAL INFLUENCES ON PEER SOCIALIZATION AMONG CHILDREN WITH ADHD

Award Number: R03MH079019
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/07/2007
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2009

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PARENTAL INFLUENCES ON PEER SOCIALIZATION AMONG CHILDREN WITH ADHD - DESCRIPTION (provided by investigator): Despite the high visibility of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which affects 5% of school-age children and constitutes a frequent referral to mental health clinics, few are aware of the serious peer relationship problems over half of children with ADHD experience. These peer problems are concerning because children with ADHD are known to develop depression, criminal behavior, substance abuse, and school failure later in life, and if they are peer-rejected as well, their risk for poor outcomes may multiply. Developing effective interventions for children with ADHD and peer rejection has the potential to reduce their suffering and to diminish societal burden, carrying high public health significance. Yet whereas available psychosocial and medication treatments improve attention span and impulse control, treatments are significantly less effective in ameliorating the high peer rejection commonly found in this population. This application examines an understudied factor that may be crucial to improving the peer relations of children with ADHD: the role of parents in encouraging their children's friendships through playdates. Ethnically- and socioeconomically-diverse children (ages 6-10) and their parents will be recruited from schools, pediatricians, and mental health clinics. Half of the children will have ADHD and the other half will not meet criteria for any disorders. In Study 1, playgroups of previously-unacquainted children with ADHD and comparison children without ADHD, along with their parents, will meet for three sessions over 2 months. I hypothesize that parents who encourage their children to join peers, who intervene when their children show behavior problems, and who debrief with their children after the playdate, will help their children make friends both in and outside of the playgroups- especially if their children have ADHD. In Study 2, I will randomly assign parents of children with ADHD to receive a pilot intervention aimed at teaching parents skills to support their children's friendship making, or to be in a non-intervention control group. I hypothesize that the intervention will help parents encourage their children's peer relationships, and that their children will make friends more easily both in and outside of playgroups. Results from these studies may improve understanding about ways in which parents can reduce their children's peer relationship problems. The pilot intervention being tested is stand-alone and has the potential to be a more efficient and cost-effective treatment, or to be added as a component to improve existing treatments. I plan for results inform future intervention studies that address peer rejection for children with ADHD, including creation of a manualized treatment protocol and examining whether effectiveness differs for boys versus girls, and for children with the Inattentive versus Combined subtype of ADHD. Public Health Relevance: This Public Health Relevance is not available.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2008 ( Subtotal = $75,750 )
2008	2008	UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	PO BOX 400195	CHARLOTTESVILLE	VA	22904	CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	2	5/8/2008	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$75,750
														Subtotal = $75,750

Issue Date FY: 2007 ( Subtotal = $75,750 )
2007	2007	UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA	PO BOX 400195	CHARLOTTESVILLE	VA	22904	CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	1	5/7/2007	NEW	$75,750
														Subtotal = $75,750

Grand Total All Awards = $151,500

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PARENTAL INFLUENCES ON PEER SOCIALIZATION AMONG CHILDREN WITH ADHD

Award Number: R03MH079019

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/07/2007

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2009

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