Intervention on ADHD: Effectiveness of Parental Group Discussion Based on Caring Swanson Theory

The main goal of CST is to provide convenience caring process for clients to go through the transition period by facilitating everything the client needs. The aim of this study was to intervene the caring process of parents as caregivers of ADHD children by using SCT module in a closeted room of parental group discussion that were performed in four-time sessions. Parental group discussions are conducted online and offline. In the process, the discussion group will discuss developments of caring process. The control group were only provided a room to discuss their problem while the experimental group received the intervention. This type of research is quasi experiment with pretest and post-test control group design. The research population was all parents as caregivers of ADHD children in the Malang City area, East Java, Indonesia. The instruments used in data collection were the SCT module for caregivers and a questionnaire with responses. Parents as caregivers will fill out a questionnaire before and after the parental group discussion process. The average parents’ responses were 76.07 in experimental group, so it is categorized as strongly agree. Parents from the experimental group were stating that they were more composed in handling the caring process daily now that they have new insight of what goal must’ve been achieved from caring ADHD children.