Systematic review of the effectiveness of psychological interventions on parent-child interaction improving in children with ADHD

Positive parent-child interactions prevent psychological, developmental, emotional and social harm in children.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of psychological interventions on parent-child interactions in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

The research method was a systematic review and the statistical population included all national research using the keywords of parent-child interactions, parenting, attention deficit-hyperactivity in databases of, Society of Humanities portal, Jihad University Scientific Information Center, Noor Specialized Journals, Iran Institute of Information Science and Technology and, database of publications of the country. Amongst them, 334 studies were selected using the purposive sampling method, whereas, 11 studies were methodologically acceptable in this study. All of studies were analyzed according to the instructions of PRISMA.

The results showed that most of the researches are related to the years 2019-2020. Tehran and Isfahan have the most researches, hence, in recent years, the attention of researchers to the subject of various interventions in the field of parent-child interactions has increased. Moreover, neurofeedback-related interventions (40 sessions) and multidimensional parenting (16 sessions) had the largest shares in terms of intervention sessions.

The results indicate the importance of various educational interventions aimed at improving parent-child interactions and their effectiveness in reducing mental stress, behavioral problems and attention problems in children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. Therefore, behavioral education programs with parental participation and the use of multidimensional and integrated interventions are the most effective therapies which can be placed at the top of the planning of researchers and therapists in this field.