Mehta Sanjiv, Mehta Vijay, Mehta Sagar, Shah Devesh, Motiwala Ashok, Vardhan Jay, Mehta Naina, Mehta Devendra
Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
ISRN Pediatr. 2011;2011:780745. doi: 10.5402/2011/780745. Epub 2011 Aug 11.
A low-cost resource approach to ADHD therapy would be a practical approach to treating children in developing countries. Research has shown that ADHD is prevalent in all areas of the world, and yet treatment for children in more impoverished countries is still lacking. The approach taken was to combine yoga and meditation combined with multimodal behavioral therapy program for children ageing 6 to 11. The program was kept low cost by using trained high school volunteers and integrating the program within the public school. After 6 weeks of the program, 90.5% of children showed improvement as measured by their performance impairment score, a measurement of academic performance. Parent and Teacher evaluations of behavior also found improvement as 25 of the 64 children (39.1%) improved into the normal range as measured by the Vanderbilt questionnaire. Moreover, children could successfully learn both yoga and meditation from high school students irrespective of their age, ADHD type, or initial performance impairment. The results demonstrate efficacy of a multimodal behavioral program incorporating yoga and meditation. The use of high school volunteers from schools in the area demonstrates an effective low-cost and universally applicable approach.
一种低成本的多动症治疗方法对于发展中国家的儿童治疗来说将是一种切实可行的办法。研究表明，多动症在世界各个地区都很普遍，但贫困国家的儿童仍然缺乏治疗。所采用的方法是将瑜伽和冥想与针对6至11岁儿童的多模式行为治疗方案相结合。通过使用经过培训的高中志愿者并将该方案纳入公立学校，该方案得以保持低成本。在该方案实施6周后，90.5%的儿童根据其表现受损评分（一种学业成绩衡量指标）显示出改善。家长和教师对行为的评估也发现有改善，在64名儿童中，有25名（39.1%）根据范德比尔特问卷的测量结果改善到了正常范围。此外，无论年龄、多动症类型或初始表现受损情况如何，儿童都能成功地从高中生那里学习瑜伽和冥想。结果证明了包含瑜伽和冥想的多模式行为方案的有效性。利用该地区学校的高中志愿者证明了一种有效的低成本且普遍适用的方法。
