Student Research
Mareli Fischer is futhering her studies and requires additional information and families who have children with ADHD, to participate.
Student Research
Dr Jacques van Zyl
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Current Student Research Project
Since its inception ADHASA has always encouraged and assisted students with their ADHD research projects. These studies increase and understanding of the condition and, in turn, helps to make this a better world for people affected by it. We thank the many people who have assisted us in the past.
Tania Theron thanks ADHASA for their assistance with her Research Project: “Resilience in Families living with a child diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder”. She will be sending a copy of her Dissertation as soon as it is available.
Please assist with the Research Project on ADHD Adult time Management. Please follow the link, after the report back as listed below.
Preliminary Report Back - "Time Management Research"
Preliminary Report Back on Time Management for ADHD Children Research - Conducted by Dr. Myra Taylor, University Of Western Australia
"Having collected almost 1,000 completed surveys from parents, teachers and children from over 25 different countries worldwide we are now in a position to provide the first update of our research."
"Using sophisticated statistical analyses named Confirmatory Factor Analysis with the data collected from parents of children with and without ADHD we have identified three areas of time related difficulties: (i) Foresight/Hindsight, (ii) Lack of Planning, Organization, and Management of Time, and (iii) Difficulty with Sequencing, Conceptualizing and Telling Time. Having done this we will now determine just how children with ADHD differ in these three crucial aspects of time. From a series of interviews we also identified the critical everyday home and school events in which sense of time deficits occur, how these are manifested, and how they interfere with everyday functioning. We have also found that children with ADHD present with significantly higher levels of anxiety overall. When examined more closely children with ADHD are more likely to report greater levels of feeling tense, dizzy, and shaky. These same individuals also report they experience greater levels of physical tension and are likely to feel scared when alone or in unfamiliar situations. Our aim now is to examine these time management difficulties and aspects of anxiety in relation to our time management anxiety hypothesis and then develop interventions for our children to assist them in their academic and social functioning."
"NEW FOR ADULTS: During our research numerous adults (parents, non parents and teachers) asked if we had an adult version of our time survey. We are pleased to announce that we have since developed one and would encourage all adult members of your support group (whether ADHD or non ADHD) to go to the following link to complete the survey:
www.savant.net.au/survey/46952
If you would like copies of their research papers free of charge once they are completed, and available, please email them at:
myra.taylor@uwa.edu.au
If you have questions that you would like to raise about the study, please contact:
Professor Stephen Houghton on 6488 2391 or stephen.houghton@uwa.edu.au - or
Dr Myra Taylor on 6488 2393 or myra.taylor@uwa.edu.au .
Ethical approval granted: UWA Human Research Ethics Committee (Ref RA/4/1/1136).
Report Back - "ADHD and the Whole Family"
Stephanie Bell is a year 12 student in New South Wales, Australia, completing her "Family and Community Studies Assignment".
"Thank you so much on behalf of Stephanie. I am just so proud of all the people who responded so willingly, my heart could burst with thanks! She had replies from every state here (only about 12 surveys) but the South African input puts the total to 43 so far. There is nothing like being part of an international community to make your woes seem more in perspective". Julie Appelton, HADA NSW, Australia.
Comments from Kirsty - University of Lincoln, U.K.
‘…I would just like to take this opportunity, to thank the whole group and everyone associated with ADHASA for all the support and love displayed to me during my placement. I have never worked within such a compassionate group of people, whose real aim was to give help to people who needed it the most. ADHASA is highly respected in my eyes and I am thankful for every experience offered to me. I wish the group the best of luck in the future, and may it continue to grow and reach more and more people.
Keep the good work up and thank you’
