Kinan M Al-Bitar, Jeffrey M Garcia, Shengtong Han, Arndt Guentsch
Association between periodontal health status and quality of life: a cross-sectional study
Frontiers in oral health
attention deficithyperactivity disorder adhd common neurobehavioral disorder negatively affects educational relational occupational aspects ones life although many children diagnosed disorder benefit taking medication particularly core symptoms play therapy storytelling seen engaging stimulating compatible childrens developmental needs social skills children vital symptoms better addressed cognitivebased art therapy interventions little research focused combination play therapy storytelling social interactions children adhd highly important academic settings study aimed determine effects combination childrens social skills adhd survey quasiexperimental study pretestposttest design control group participants 711yearold girls boys adhd based dsmv referred child adolescent psychiatrists clinics selected children randomly allocated intervention control groups intervention group received individual combined intervention play therapy storytelling whereas control group receive therapeutic intervention social skills time waiting list research tool social skills rating system ssrs data computeranalyzed using spss20 couple descriptive analytic tests including ancova study 30 children adhd included combined intervention play therapy storytelling significant effect posttest results adhd patients terms social skills well test subscales p 005 significant improvement subscales selfexpression selfcontrol responsibility cooperation p 005 results show promise combined play therapy storytelling intervention enhance social skills elementary school children diagnosed adhd