Effectivity of Online Stress Management Training for Mothers of Children with ADHD in terms of Cognitive Knowledge
Keywords:
ADHD, Stress Management, Mother, Parenting StressAbstract
Parents with children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD are vulnerable to parenting stress. Mothers of children with ADHD experience more parenting stress because they feel they have failed in their role in parenting. There are various concerns that mothers of children with ADHD have that can trigger parenting stress, that also can have a negative association with both parents and ADHD children themselves. An intervention is needed to prevent the negative impacts of parenting stress on mothers with ADHD children. This study aims to see the effectiveness of online stress management training in terms of cognitive knowledge for mothers of children with ADHD. The research method is a quasi-experimental study that is measured through cognitive pre/post-test. The intervention provided stress management training in three days. The respondents of this study were 10 mothers of ADHD children who had a moderate and high level of parenting stress. The results showed that there was no difference in cognitive knowledge scores. The result of the T-Test analysis shows the significance value was 0.102 (>0.05). Therefore, online stress management training is less effective in increasing cognitive knowledge for mothers of children with ADHD. This result is influenced by the education level of the participant and the participant often gets information related to ADHD materials from a group of parents with ADHD children. However, the qualitative data shows additional information that shows that they increased information related to managing stress instead of ADHD.
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