The Effect of a Brief Educational Intervention for Adults With ADHD

Community mental health centres (CMHCs) face significant challenges in meeting the needs of individuals with mental health issues. For example, due to high demand there are long waiting lists and low engagement rates. To address these challenges, innovative interventions are urgently needed to improve patient engagement, coping skills, and overall health outcomes. Educational and self-management interventions have shown promise in enhancing patient satisfaction and patient activation in other contexts and may therefore be potential solutions to reduce the identified challenges in the mental health service. To bridge these knowledge and practice gaps, this application proposes the evaluation of one educational intervention tailored specifically for adults with ADHD. This intervention aims to enhance patient engagement, treatment satisfaction, activation and overall outcomes.

The main hypotheses are that the new educational approach, developed in cooperation with user representatives, will result in higher patient engagement, increase patient satisfaction with the treatment, self-efficacy and patient activation.

The researchers hypothesized that the new educational intervention, through a brief group-based approach and in conjunction with standard clinical care, will improve patients' satisfaction, patients' self-efficacy, satisfaction with the information, as well as patient activation, compared to the usual treatment, in outpatient mental health settings.

This intervention has the potential to empower patients, increase their engagement in treatment, and improve their overall functioning. By demonstrating the efficacy of this approach, this research will inform clinical practice and contribute to the optimization of care for adults with ADHD.

• Change in patient activation using PAM [Срок оценки: At baseline, 1 week before the intervention [pre-intervention], at 4 weeks [post intervention] and up to 56 weeks [follow up]]
• Change in ADHD-related symptoms using ASRS [Срок оценки: At baseline, 1 week before the intervention [pre-intervention], at 4 weeks [post intervention] and up to 56 weeks [follow up]]
• Change in ADHD-related symptoms using SCL-9 [Срок оценки: At baseline, 1 week before the intervention [pre-intervention], at 4 weeks [post intervention] and up to 56 weeks [follow up]]
• Change in depression and anxiety symptoms using PHQ-4 [Срок оценки: At baseline, 1 week before the intervention [pre-intervention], at 4 weeks [post intervention] and up to 56 weeks [follow up]]
• Change in patient enablement using PEN-13 [Срок оценки: At baseline, 1 week before the intervention [pre-intervention], at 4 weeks [post intervention] and up to 56 weeks [follow up]]
• Change in stress level using PSS-4 [Срок оценки: At baseline, 1 week before the intervention [pre-intervention], at 4 weeks [post intervention] and up to 56 weeks [follow up]]
• Change in level of functioning using WSAS [Срок оценки: At baseline, 1 week before the intervention [pre-intervention], at 4 weeks [post intervention] and up to 56 weeks [follow up]]
• Change in ADHD Quality of life using AAQoL [Срок оценки: At baseline, 1 week before the intervention [pre-intervention], at 4 weeks [post intervention] and up to 56 weeks [follow up]]
• Change in Health-related Quality of life using EQ-5D-5L [Срок оценки: At baseline, 1 week before the intervention [pre-intervention], at 4 weeks [post intervention] and up to 56 weeks [follow up]]