Exercise 1: Analysis of Experimental Intervention Dopfner, Breuer, Schurmann, Mettrnicht, Rademacher, and Lehmkuhl (2004) conducted an analysis of an experimental intervention to test the effectiveness of an adaptive multimodal treatment in children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Stringent inclusion and exclusion criteria included age, diagnosis, length of participation in treatment, type of treatment, and other key variables. Randomization was employed in a fixed design to compensate for excluding patients who did not wish to be fully randomized and for whom specific treatment requirements were viewed as mandatory. Subjects were recruited based upon their participation in either behavior therapy or drug treatment after an initial psychoeducation program.
A total of 26 percent received a combined drug and pharmaceutical treatment in later treatment stages. For 82 percent, behavior therapy was added. Dopfner, et al, (2004) stated that the study was limited in that it did not consider therapeu
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