Post by misty on Nov 14, 2006 10:12:13 GMT -5
I had to share this...its really cool!
In this study, Personal Digital Assistants - PDAs - were used to provide a unique window into the challenges of living with ADHD, challenges that remain despite important benefits that may be provided by medication treatment.
Participants were 27 children with ADHD (average age 10.5 years, 18 boys, 9 girls) and their moms as well as 25 children without ADHD (average age 10.5 years, 15 boys, 10 girls) and their moms. All children in the ADHD group were being treated with a long acting stimulant - either Concerta or Adderall XR - at the time of the study............
To learn about participants' the day to day experience, electronic diary monitoring using Personal Digital Assistants - PDAs - was scheduled across 7 consecutive days during nonschool hours. The PDAs were programmed to beep approximately every 30 minutes to signal that it was time to complete a diary checklist. Both mothers and children had their own PDA, which were programmed to beep at different times, and each completed their own electronic diary. The PDAs were programmed to beep when mothers and children were likely to be together - before school, after school, and on weekends.
The diary items were selected to "...tap contexts, behaviors, and moods that are relevant to the daily lives of parents and school age children, to capture the quality of their interactions, and to include dimensions that often prove problematic for children with ADHD.
The Entire study can be read here:
www.helpforadd.com/2006/april.htm
In this study, Personal Digital Assistants - PDAs - were used to provide a unique window into the challenges of living with ADHD, challenges that remain despite important benefits that may be provided by medication treatment.
Participants were 27 children with ADHD (average age 10.5 years, 18 boys, 9 girls) and their moms as well as 25 children without ADHD (average age 10.5 years, 15 boys, 10 girls) and their moms. All children in the ADHD group were being treated with a long acting stimulant - either Concerta or Adderall XR - at the time of the study............
To learn about participants' the day to day experience, electronic diary monitoring using Personal Digital Assistants - PDAs - was scheduled across 7 consecutive days during nonschool hours. The PDAs were programmed to beep approximately every 30 minutes to signal that it was time to complete a diary checklist. Both mothers and children had their own PDA, which were programmed to beep at different times, and each completed their own electronic diary. The PDAs were programmed to beep when mothers and children were likely to be together - before school, after school, and on weekends.
The diary items were selected to "...tap contexts, behaviors, and moods that are relevant to the daily lives of parents and school age children, to capture the quality of their interactions, and to include dimensions that often prove problematic for children with ADHD.
The Entire study can be read here:
www.helpforadd.com/2006/april.htm
He also has asthma and if he gets himself going fast enough he'll go right into the hospital because he can't breathe. His saturated Blood Oxygen just starts falling and he doesn't know it because he is in the middle of it! I don't say it all the time just when he is wwwwaaaaayyyyy out of control!!! 
This works for Jake I don't know about everyone else but for him it works.
Dawn, not to digress, but that is so Funny/Interesting about using Shannon's name that waY ! I almost started out saying Misty, stop being so Mistyfying, but I didn't.