J Korean Acad Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs.  2010 Jun;19(2):117-132. 10.12934/jkpmhn.2010.19.2.117.

The Meta Analysis of Trends and the Effects of Non-pharmacological Intervention for School Aged ADHD Children

• Seo JY
• Park WJ

• KMID: 2321825
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2010.19.2.117

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to investigate the trends and the effects of intervention related to ADHD children by meta-analysis.
METHODS
After review of 200 articles released from 1990 to 2009 from RISS, KISS, and DBpia, 26 studies was conducted to determine methodological data, 362 research variables, using SPSS/WIN 17.0 program.
RESULTS
Effects size of overall intervention is 1.32 which is high level in terms of Cohen criteria. The greatest effect of intervention is obtained from cognitive behavior control training (1.79). Also art therapy (1.29) and social skill training (0.97) are highly effective whereas parents education (0.66) is only moderate effective. Duration of each session and numbers of session are influential in cognitive behavior control and social skills training.
CONCLUSION
The results reveal that ADHD intervention has large effect sizes for core features and peripheral features of target outcome variables. For improving the reliability of the meta-analysis results by minimizing publication bias, more intervention studies using appropriated study design should be done.

Keyword

ADHD; Intervention; Meta-analysis

MeSH Terms

Art Therapy
Behavior Control
Child*
Education
Humans
Clinical Trial
Parents
Publication Bias

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  Figure 1 Flow of study analysis through the different phases of a systemic review.

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  Figure 2 Effect size of each target outcome category and intervention.

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  Figure 3 Effect size difference (error bars indicates 95% CIs).

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