Quality standard
Quality statement 4: Parent training programmes
- Quality statement
- Rationale
- Quality measures
- What the quality statement means for service providers, healthcare practitioners, and commissioners
- What the quality statement means for patients, service users and carers
- Source guidance
- Definitions of terms used in this quality statement
- Equality and diversity considerations
Quality statement 4: Parent training programmes
Quality statement
Parents or carers of children and young people with symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who meet the NICE eligibility criteria are offered a referral to a parent training programme.
Rationale
Parent training and education programmes aim to provide parents or carers with coping strategies and techniques for managing the behaviour of their children with ADHD. These programmes can help improve the relationship between parents or carers and their children and improve the child's behaviour.
Quality measures
Structure
a) Evidence of local arrangements to ensure that parents or carers of children and young people with symptoms of ADHD who meet NICE eligibility criteria are offered a referral to a parent training programme.
Data source: Local data collection.
b) Evidence of local arrangements for provision of parent training programmes.
Data source: Local data collection.
Process
a) Proportion of parents or carers of children and young people with symptoms of ADHD who meet NICE eligibility criteria who are referred to a parent training programme.
Numerator – the number of people in the denominator referred to a parent training programme
Denominator – the number of parents or carers of children and young people with symptoms of ADHD who meet NICE eligibility criteria.
Data source: Local data collection.
b) Proportion of parents or carers of children and young people with symptoms of ADHD who meet NICE eligibility criteria who attend a parent training programme.
Numerator – the number of people in the denominator attending a parent training programme.
Denominator – the number of parents or carers of children and young people with symptoms of ADHD who are referred to a parent training programme.
Data source: Local data collection.
c) Proportion of parents and carers of children and young people with symptoms of ADHD who meet NICE eligibility criteria who complete a parent training programme.
Numerator – the number of people in the denominator completing a parent training programme.
Denominator – the number of parents or carers of children and young people with symptoms of ADHD who attend a parent training programme.
Data source: Local data collection.
What the quality statement means for service providers, healthcare practitioners, and commissioners
Service providers ensure that systems are in place for the referral of parents or carers of children and young people with symptoms of ADHD who meet NICE eligibility criteria to a parent training programme.
Healthcare practitioners ensure that they offer parents or carers of children and young people with symptoms of ADHD who meet NICE eligibility criteria a referral to a parent training programme.
Commissioners ensure that they commission parent training programmes for parents or carers of children and young people with symptoms of ADHD who meet NICE eligibility criteria.
What the quality statement means for patients, service users and carers
Parents and carers of children and young people with symptoms of ADHD who meet NICE eligibility criteria are offered a referral to a parent training programme to help them manage their child's behaviour.
Source guidance
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: diagnosis and management (2018) NICE guideline NG87, recommendations 1.5.7 and 1.5.12
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Antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people: recognition and management (2013 updated 2017) NICE guideline CG158, recommendations 1.5.2 and 1.5.4
Definitions of terms used in this quality statement
Parent training programme
Parent training programmes should be offered in line with recommendations 1.5.1 to 1.5.10 in NICE's guideline on antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people.
[NICE's guidelines on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, recommendation 1.5.7 and 1.5.11, and antisocial behaviour and conduct disorders in children and young people, recommendations 1.5.1 to 1.5.10]
Symptoms of ADHD
For a diagnosis of ADHD, symptoms of hyperactivity/impulsivity and/or inattention should:
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meet the diagnostic criteria for ADHD in DSM-5 (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition) or for hyperkinetic disorder in ICD-10 (the International Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders 10th revision) and
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cause at least moderate psychological, social and/or educational or occupational impairment based on interview and/or direct observation in multiple settings, and
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be pervasive, occurring in two or more important settings including social, familial, educational and/or occupational settings.
[NICE's guideline on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, recommendation 1.3.3]
NICE eligibility criteria
The NICE eligibility criteria for referral to a parent training programme are:
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parents or carers of children under 5 years with ADHD
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parents or carers of children over 5 years with ADHD and symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder or conduct disorder.
[NICE's guideline on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, recommendation 1.5.7 and 1.5.11]