The Effectiveness of Compassion- Focused Group Therapy on Quality of Life and Change in the Goals and Priorities of Mothers of Children with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder

Background and Problems with the care of a child with ADHD, puts parents at risk of psychological damage, especially for the mother. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of compassion- focused group therapy on quality of life and change in the goals and priorities of mothers of children with attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder.
The research method was a semi-experimental design with a pre-test-post-test design with control group. The statistical papulation included mothers of children with ADHD, who were referred to Khorshid Hospital in the spring of 2017. 20 mothers were selected through purposeful sampling and randomly assigned into two experimental and control groups (each group was 10). For both groups, the pretest was performed. The experimental group received compassion therapy for 8 sessions of 90 minutes and one week after the intervention, both groups performed a post-test. Data were gathered using MOS 36-item short-form health survey (Wier and Sherbun 1992), (SF-36), and change in the goals and priorities scale (PTGI) (Tedschi and Kalahoun, 1996).
The results of covariance analysis showed there was significant difference in quality of life and its dimension (physical function, energy/fatigue, emotional well-being, social function, pain and general health) and change in the goals and priorities of mothers of hyperactive children (p The compassion-focused therapy group can be used to improve the quality of life and change the goals and priorities of mothers of children with attention deficit / hypertensive disorders.