Moon Moon Dutta
Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, Kolkata
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD)is one of the prevalent neurodevelopmental
and heterogenous disorder. The present study focuses on developing a structured and
holistic session-wise management guidelines and find out the pre-post treatment change
of both behavioural and multimodal treatment paradigms for ADHD symptoms severity.
20 families participated in the study. The children were selected according to DSM-5
ADHD Combined Type criteria. Half of the participants received behavioural intervention
and the others received multimodal intervention. In behavioural intervention the focus
was on application of behavioural principles and strategies for symptom reduction. This
modality of treatment aims to change the present environment to modify behaviour.
Whereas multimodal paradigm aims to address the ADHD heterogeneity by incorporating
combined therapeutic principles for symptom reduction. The pre-post treatment change
was statistically analysed to determine the treatment efficacy. Statistical analysis using
Wilcoxon-Signed Rank Test revealed both treatment modalities are effective in symptom
reduction. Though both the treatment modalities were found to be effective, multimodal
treatment modality showed more improvement with respect to ADHD core symptoms
reduction